• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Demographic history and genetic structure in pre-Hispanic Central Mexico
  • Beteiligte: Villa-Islas, Viridiana; Izarraras-Gomez, Alan; Larena, Maximilian; Campos, Elizabeth Mejía Perez; Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Juan Esteban; Bravo-Lopez, Miriam; Moguel, Barbara; Fregel, Rosa; Garfias-Morales, Ernesto; Medina Tretmanis, Jazeps; Velázquez-Ramírez, David Alberto; Herrera-Muñóz, Alberto; Sandoval, Karla; Nieves-Colón, Maria A.; Zepeda García Moreno, Gabriela; Villanea, Fernando A.; Medina, Eugenia Fernández Villanueva; Aguayo-Haro, Ramiro; Valdiosera, Cristina; Ioannidis, Alexander G.; Moreno-Estrada, Andrés; Jay, Flora; Huerta-Sanchez, Emilia; [...]
  • Erschienen: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2023
  • Erschienen in: Science, 380 (2023) 6645
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.add6142
  • ISSN: 0036-8075; 1095-9203
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  • Beschreibung: Aridoamerica and Mesoamerica are two distinct cultural areas in northern and central Mexico, respectively, that hosted numerous pre-Hispanic civilizations between 2500 BCE and 1521 CE. The division between these regions shifted southward because of severe droughts ~1100 years ago, which allegedly drove a population replacement in central Mexico by Aridoamerican peoples. In this study, we present shotgun genome-wide data from 12 individuals and 27 mitochondrial genomes from eight pre-Hispanic archaeological sites across Mexico, including two at the shifting border of Aridoamerica and Mesoamerica. We find population continuity that spans the climate change episode and a broad preservation of the genetic structure across present-day Mexico for the past 2300 years. Lastly, we identify a contribution to pre-Hispanic populations of northern and central Mexico from two ancient unsampled “ghost” populations.