TY - JOUR
T1 - Ancient and modern genomics of the Ohlone Indigenous population of California
AU - Severson, Alissa L.
AU - Byrd, Brian F.
AU - Mallott, Elizabeth K.
AU - Owings, Amanda C.
AU - DeGiorgio, Michael
AU - de Flamingh, Alida
AU - Nijmeh, Charlene
AU - Arellano, Monica V.
AU - Leventhal, Alan
AU - Rosenberg, Noah A.
AU - Malhi, Ripan S.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We thank the Muwekma Ohlone Tribal Council for support of this project. Partial analysis funding was provided by Far Western Anthropological Research Group via an archaeological mitigation contract with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and B.F.B. thanks Kimberly Stern Liddell, Bryan Deassaure, and Deborah Craven-Green for their support. We thank Paul Verdu for assistance with data files. We acknowledge support from NSF grants BCS-1518026, BCS-2001063, BCS-2017956, and BCS-2018200.
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PY - 2022/3/29
Y1 - 2022/3/29
N2 - Traditional knowledge, along with archaeological and linguistic evidence, documents that California supports cultural and linguistically diverse Indigenous populations. Studies that have included ancient genomes in this region, however, have focused primarily on broad-scale migration history of the North American continent, with relatively little attention to local population dynamics. Here, in a partnership involving researchers and the Muwekma Ohlone tribe, we analyze genomic data from ancient and present-day individuals from the San Francisco Bay Area in California: 12 ancient individuals dated to 1905 to 1826 and 601 to 184 calibrated years before the present (cal BP) from two archaeological sites and eight present-day members of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe, whose ancestral lands include these two sites. We find that when compared to other ancient and modern individuals throughout the Americas, the 12 ancient individuals from the San Francisco Bay Area cluster with ancient individuals from Southern California. At a finer scale of analysis, we find that the 12 ancient individuals from the San Francisco Bay Area have distinct ancestry from the other groups and that this ancestry has a component of continuity over time with the eight present-day Muwekma Ohlone individuals. These results add to our understanding of Indigenous population history in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, and in western North America more broadly.
AB - Traditional knowledge, along with archaeological and linguistic evidence, documents that California supports cultural and linguistically diverse Indigenous populations. Studies that have included ancient genomes in this region, however, have focused primarily on broad-scale migration history of the North American continent, with relatively little attention to local population dynamics. Here, in a partnership involving researchers and the Muwekma Ohlone tribe, we analyze genomic data from ancient and present-day individuals from the San Francisco Bay Area in California: 12 ancient individuals dated to 1905 to 1826 and 601 to 184 calibrated years before the present (cal BP) from two archaeological sites and eight present-day members of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe, whose ancestral lands include these two sites. We find that when compared to other ancient and modern individuals throughout the Americas, the 12 ancient individuals from the San Francisco Bay Area cluster with ancient individuals from Southern California. At a finer scale of analysis, we find that the 12 ancient individuals from the San Francisco Bay Area have distinct ancestry from the other groups and that this ancestry has a component of continuity over time with the eight present-day Muwekma Ohlone individuals. These results add to our understanding of Indigenous population history in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, and in western North America more broadly.
KW - Indigenous population genetics
KW - Penutian hypothesis
KW - genes and languages
KW - identity by descent
KW - paleogenomics
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.2111533119
DO - 10.1073/pnas.2111533119
M3 - Article
C2 - 35312358
AN - SCOPUS:85126845181
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 119
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 13
M1 - e2111533119
ER -