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The Beaker Phenomenon and the Genomic Transformation of Northwest Europe

Iñigo Olalde,1 Selina Brace,2 Morten E. Allentoft,3 Ian Armit,4,* Kristian Kristiansen,5,* Thomas Booth,2 Nadin Rohland,1 Swapan Mallick,1,6,7 Anna Szécsényi-Nagy,8 Alissa Mittnik,9,10 Eveline Altena,11 Mark Lipson,1 Iosif Lazaridis,1,6 Thomas K. Harper,12 Nick Patterson,6 Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht,1,7 Yoan Diekmann,13 Zuzana Faltyskova,13 Daniel Fernandes,14,15,16 Matthew Ferry,1,7 Eadaoin Harney,1 Peter de Knijff,11 Megan Michel,1,7 Jonas Oppenheimer,1,7 Kristin Stewardson,1,7 Alistair Barclay,17 Kurt Werner Alt,18,19,20 Corina Liesau,21 Patricia Ríos,21 Concepción Blasco,21 Jorge Vega Miguel,22 Roberto Menduiña García,22 Azucena Avilés Fernández,23 Eszter Bánffy,24,25 Maria Bernabò-Brea,26 David Billoin,27 Clive Bonsall,28 Laura Bonsall,29 Tim Allen,30 Lindsey Büster,4 Sophie Carver,31 Laura Castells Navarro,4 Oliver E. Craig,32 Gordon T. Cook,33 Barry Cunliffe,34 Anthony Denaire,35 Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy,17 Natasha Dodwell,36 Michal Ernée,37 Christopher Evans,38 Milan Kuchařík,39 Joan Francès Farré,40 Chris Fowler,41 Michiel Gazenbeek,42 Rafael Garrido Pena,21 María Haber-Uriarte,23 Elżbieta Haduch,43 Gill Hey,30 Nick Jowett,44 Timothy Knowles,45 Ken Massy,46 Saskia Pfrengle,9 Philippe Lefranc,47 Olivier Lemercier,48 Arnaud Lefebvre,49,50 César Heras Martínez,51,52,53 Virginia Galera Olmo,52,53 Ana Bastida Ramírez,51 Joaquín Lomba Maurandi,23 Tona Majó,54 Jacqueline I. McKinley,17 Kathleen McSweeney,28 Balázs Gusztáv Mende,8 Alessandra Modi,55 Gabriella Kulcsár,24 Viktória Kiss,24 András Czene,56 Róbert Patay,57 Anna Endrődi,58 Kitti Köhler,24 Tamás Hajdu,59,60 Tamás Szeniczey,59 János Dani,61 Zsolt Bernert,60 Maya Hoole,62 Olivia Cheronet,14,15 Denise Keating,63 Petr Velemínský,64 Miroslav Dobeš,37 Francesca Candilio,65,66,67 Fraser Brown,30 Raúl Flores Fernández,68 Ana-Mercedes Herrero-Corral,69 Sebastiano Tusa,70 Emiliano Carnieri,71 Luigi Lentini,72 Antonella Valenti,73 Alessandro Zanini,74 Clive Waddington,75 Germán Delibes,76 Elisa Guerra-Doce,76 Benjamin Neil,38 Marcus Brittain,38 Mike Luke,77 Richard Mortimer,36 Jocelyne Desideri,78 Marie Besse,78 Günter Brücken,79 Mirosław Furmanek,80 Agata Hałuszko,80 Maksym Mackiewicz,80 Artur Rapiński,81 Stephany Leach,82 Ignacio Soriano,83 Katina T. Lillios,84 João Luís Cardoso,85,86 Michael Parker Pearson,87 Piotr Włodarczak,88 T. Douglas Price,89 Pilar Prieto,90 Pierre-Jérôme Rey,91 Roberto Risch,83 Manuel A. Rojo Guerra,92 Aurore Schmitt,93 Joël Serralongue,94 Ana Maria Silva,95 Václav Smrčka,96 Luc Vergnaud,97 João Zilhão,85,98,99 David Caramelli,55 Thomas Higham,100 Mark G. Thomas,13 Douglas J. Kennett,101 Harry Fokkens,102 Volker Heyd,31,103 Alison Sheridan,104 Karl-Göran Sjögren,5 Philipp W. Stockhammer,46,105 Johannes Krause,105 Ron Pinhasi,14,15,* Wolfgang Haak,105,106,* Ian Barnes,2,* Carles Lalueza-Fox,107,* and David Reich1,6,7,*
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Abstract

Bell Beaker pottery spread across western and central Europe beginning around 2750 BCE before disappearing between 2200–1800 BCE. The forces propelling its expansion are a matter of long-standing debate, with support for both cultural diffusion and migration. We present new genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans, including 226 Beaker-associated individuals. We detected limited genetic affinity between Iberian and central European Beaker-associated individuals, and thus exclude migration as a significant mechanism of spread between these two regions. However, migration played a key role in the further dissemination of the Beaker Complex, a phenomenon we document most clearly in Britain, where the spread of the Beaker Complex introduced high levels of Steppe-related ancestry and was associated with a replacement of ~90% of Britain’s gene pool within a few hundred years, continuing the east-to-west expansion that had brought Steppe-related ancestry into central and northern Europe 400 years earlier.

During the third millennium Before the Common Era (BCE), two new archaeological pottery styles expanded across Europe, replacing many of the more localized styles that preceded them1. The ‘Corded Ware Complex’ in north-central and northeastern Europe was associated with people who derived most of their ancestry from populations related to Early Bronze Age Yamnaya pastoralists from the Eurasian steppe2–4 (henceforth referred to as Steppe). In western Europe there was the equally expansive ‘Bell Beaker Complex’, defined by assemblages of grave goods that included stylised bell-shaped pots, copper daggers, arrowheads, stone wristguards and V-perforated buttons5 (Extended Data Fig. 1). The oldest radiocarbon dates associated with Beaker pottery are around 2750 BCE in Atlantic Iberia6, which has been interpreted as evidence that the Beaker Complex originated there. However, the geographic origin is still debated7 and other scenarios including an origin in the Lower Rhine area or even multiple independent origins are possible (Supplementary Information section 1). Regardless of the geographic origin, by 2500 BCE the Beaker Complex had spread throughout western Europe (and northwest Africa), and reached southern and Atlantic France, Italy and central Europe5, where it overlapped geographically with the Corded Ware Complex. Within another hundred years, it had expanded to Britain and Ireland8. A major debate in archaeology has revolved around the question of whether the spread of the Beaker Complex was mediated by the movement of people, culture, or a combination of both9. Genome-wide data have revealed high proportions of Steppe-related ancestry in Beaker Complex-associated individuals from Germany and the Czech Republic2–4, showing that they derived from mixtures of populations from the Steppe and the preceding Neolithic farmers of Europe. However, a deeper understanding of the ancestry of people associated with the Beaker Complex requires genomic characterization of individuals across the geographic range and temporal duration of this archaeological phenomenon.

Ancient DNA data

To understand the genetic structure of ancient people associated with the Beaker Complex and their relationship to preceding, subsequent and contemporary peoples, we used hybridization DNA capture4,10 to enrich ancient DNA libraries for sequences overlapping 1,233,013 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and generated new sequence data from 400 ancient Europeans dated to ~4700–800 BCE and excavated from 136 different sites (Extended Data Table 1–2; Supplementary Table 1; Supplementary Information, section 2). This dataset includes 226 Beaker Complex-associated individuals from Iberia (n=37), southern France (n=4), northern Italy (n=3), Sicily (n=3), central Europe (n=133), The Netherlands (n=9) and Britain (n=37), and 174 individuals from other ancient populations, including 118 individuals from Britain who lived both before (n=51) and after (n=67) the arrival of the Beaker Complex (Fig. 1a–b). For genome-wide analyses, we filtered out first-degree relatives and individuals with low coverage (<10,000 SNPs) or evidence of DNA contamination (Methods) and combined our data with previously published ancient DNA data (Extended Data Fig. 2) to form a dataset of 683 ancient samples (Supplementary Table 1). We further merged these data with 2,572 present-day individuals genotyped on the Affymetrix Human Origins array11,12 and 300 high coverage genomes13. To facilitate the interpretation of our genetic results, we also generated 111 new direct radiocarbon dates (Extended Data Table 3; Supplementary Information, section 3).

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Spatial, temporal, and genetic structure of individuals in this study

a, Geographic distribution of samples with new genome-wide data. Random jitter was added for sites with multiple individuals. Map data from the R package maps. b, Approximate time ranges for samples with new genome-wide data. Sample sizes are given next to each bar. c, Principal component analysis of 990 present-day West Eurasian individuals (grey dots), with previously published (pale yellow) and new ancient samples projected onto the first two principal components. This figure is a zoom of Extended Data Fig. 3a. See Methods for abbreviations of population names.

Y-chromosome analysis

The Y-chromosome composition of Beaker-associated males was dominated by R1b-M269 (Supplementary Table 4), a lineage associated with the arrival of Steppe migrants in central Europe after 3000 BCE2,3. Outside Iberia, this lineage was present in 84 out of 90 analysed males. For individuals in whom we could determine the R1b-M269 subtype (n=60), we found that all but two had the derived allele for the R1b-S116/P312 polymorphism, which defines the dominant subtype in western Europe today14. In contrast, Beaker-associated individuals from the Iberian Peninsula carried a higher proportion of Y haplogroups known to be common across Europe during the earlier Neolithic period2,4,15,16, such as I (n=5) and G2 (n=1), while R1b-M269 was found in four individuals with a genome-wide signal of Steppe-related ancestry (the two with higher coverage could be further classified as R1b-S116/P312). Finding this widespread presence of the R1b-S116/P312 polymorphism in ancient individuals from central and western Europe suggests that people associated with the Beaker Complex may have had an important role in the dissemination of this lineage throughout most of its present-day distribution.

Genomic insights into the spread of people associated with the Beaker Complex

We performed Principal Component Analysis (PCA) by projecting the ancient samples onto a set of west Eurasian present-day populations. We replicated previous findings11 of two parallel clines, with present-day Europeans on one side and present-day Near Easterners on the other (Extended Data Fig. 3a). Individuals associated with the Beaker Complex are strikingly heterogeneous within the European cline—splayed out along the axis of variation defined by Early Bronze Age Yamnaya individuals from the Steppe at one extreme and Middle Neolithic/Copper Age Europeans at the other extreme (Fig. 1c; Extended Data Fig. 3a)—suggesting that the genetic differentiation may be related to variable amounts of Steppe-related ancestry. We obtained qualitatively consistent inferences using ADMIXTURE model-based clustering17. Beaker Complex-associated individuals harboured three main genetic components: one characteristic of European Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, one maximized in Neolithic individuals from the Levant and Anatolia, and one maximized in Neolithic individuals of Iran and present in admixed form in Steppe populations (Extended Data Fig. 3b).

Both PCA and ADMIXTURE are powerful tools for visualizing genetic structure but they do not provide formal tests of admixture between populations. We grouped Beaker Complex individuals based on geographic proximity and genetic similarity (Supplementary Information, section 6), and used qpAdm2 to directly test admixture models and estimate mixture proportions. We modelled their ancestry as a mixture of Mesolithic western European hunter-gatherers (WHG), northwestern Anatolian Neolithic farmers, and Early Bronze Age Steppe populations (the first two of which contributed to earlier Neolithic Europeans). We find that the great majority of sampled Beaker Complex individuals in areas outside of Iberia (with the exception of Sicily) derive a large portion of their ancestry from Steppe populations (Fig. 2a), whereas in Iberia, such ancestry is present in only eight of the 32 analysed individuals, who represent the earliest detection of Steppe-related genomic affinities in this region. We observe differences in ancestry not only at a pan-European scale, but also within regions and even within sites. For instance, at Szigetszentmiklós in Hungary we find roughly contemporary Beaker-associated individuals with very different proportions (from 0% to 75%) of Steppe-related ancestry. This genetic heterogeneity is consistent with early stages of mixture between previously established European Neolithic populations and migrants with Steppe-related ancestry. An implication is that, even at a local scale, the Beaker Complex was associated with people of diverse ancestries.

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Investigating the genetic makeup of Beaker Complex individuals

a, Proportion of Steppe-related ancestry (shown in black) in Beaker Complex-associated groups, computed with qpAdm under the model Steppe_EBA + Anatolia_N + WHG. The area of the pie is proportional to the number of individuals (shown inside the pie if more than one). Map data from the R package maps. b, f-statistics of the form f4(Mbuti, Test; Iberia_EN, LBK_EN) computed for European populations (number of individuals for each group is given in parentheses) before the emergence of the Beaker Complex (Supplementary Information section 7). Error bars represent ±1 standard errors. c, Testing different populations as a source for the Neolithic ancestry component in Beaker Complex individuals. The table shows the P-values (highlighted if >0.05) for the fit of the model: Steppe_EBA + Neolithic/Copper Age source population.

While the Steppe-related ancestry in Beaker-associated individuals had a recent origin in the East2,3, the other ancestry component (from previously established European populations) could potentially be derived from several parts of Europe, as genetically closely related groups were widely distributed during the Neolithic and Copper Ages2,4,11,16,18–23. To obtain insight into the origin of this ancestry component in Beaker Complex-associated individuals, we looked for regional patterns of genetic differentiation within Europe during the Neolithic and Copper Age periods. We examined whether populations predating the emergence of the Beaker Complex shared more alleles with Iberian (Iberia_EN) or central European Linearbandkeramik (LBK_EN) Early Neolithic populations. As previously described2, there is genetic affinity to Iberian Early Neolithic farmers in Iberian Middle Neolithic/Copper Age populations, but not in central and northern European Neolithic populations (Fig. 2b). These regional patterns could be partially explained by differential genetic affinities to pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherer individuals from different regions22 (Extended Data Fig. 4). Neolithic individuals from southern France and Britain are also significantly closer to Iberian Early Neolithic farmers than to central European Early Neolithic farmers (Fig. 2b), consistent with the analysis of a Neolithic genome from Ireland23. By modelling Neolithic populations and WHG in an admixture graph framework, we replicate these results and further show that they are not driven by different proportions of hunter-gatherer admixture (Extended Data Fig. 5; Supplementary Information, section 7). Our results suggest that a portion of the ancestry of the Neolithic populations of Britain was derived from migrants who spread along the Atlantic coast. Megalithic tombs document substantial interaction along the Atlantic façade of Europe, and our results are consistent with such interactions reflecting south-to-north movements of people. More data from southern Britain and Ireland and nearby regions in continental Europe will be needed to fully understand the complex interactions between Britain, Ireland, and the continent during the Neolithic24.

The distinctive genetic signatures of pre-Beaker Complex populations in Iberia compared to central Europe allow us to test formally for the origin of the Neolithic-related ancestry in Beaker Complex-associated individuals. We grouped individuals from Iberia (n=32) and from outside Iberia (n=172) to increase power, and evaluated the fit of different Neolithic/Copper Age groups with qpAdm under the model: Steppe_EBA + Neolithic/Copper Age. For Beaker Complex-associated individuals from Iberia, the best fit was obtained when Middle Neolithic and Copper Age populations from the same region were used as the source for their Neolithic-related ancestry, and we could exclude central and northern European populations (P < 0.0063) (Fig. 2c). Conversely, the Neolithic-related ancestry in Beaker Complex individuals outside Iberia was most closely related to central and northern European Neolithic populations with relatively high hunter-gatherer admixture (e.g. Poland_LN, P = 0.18; Sweden_MN, P = 0.25), and we could significantly exclude Iberian sources (P < 0.0104) (Fig. 2c). These results support largely different origins for Beaker Complex-associated individuals, with no discernible Iberia-related ancestry outside Iberia.

Nearly complete turnover of ancestry in Britain

British Beaker Complex-associated individuals (n=37) show strong similarities to central European Beaker Complex-associated individuals in their genetic profile (Extended Data Fig. 3). This observation is not restricted to British individuals associated with the ‘All-Over-Cord’ Beaker pottery style that is shared between Britain and Central Europe, as we also find this genetic signal in British individuals associated with Beaker pottery styles derived from the ‘Maritime’ forms that were the predominant early style in Iberia. The presence of large amounts of Steppe-related ancestry in British Beaker Complex-associated individuals (Fig. 2a) contrasts sharply with Neolithic individuals from Britain (n=51), who have no evidence of Steppe genetic affinities and cluster instead with Middle Neolithic and Copper Age populations from mainland Europe (Extended Data Fig. 3). A previous study showed that Steppe-related ancestry arrived in Ireland by the Bronze Age23, and here we show that – at least in Britain – it arrived earlier in the Copper Age/Beaker period.

Among the different continental Beaker Complex groups analysed in our dataset, individuals from Oostwoud (Province of Noord-Holland, The Netherlands) are the most closely related to the great majority of the Beaker Complex individuals from southern Britain (n=27). The two groups had almost identical Steppe-related ancestry proportions (Fig. 2a), the highest level of shared genetic drift (Extended Data Fig. 6b), and were symmetrically related to most ancient populations (Extended Data Fig. 6a), showing that they are likely derived from the same ancestral population with limited mixture into either group. This does not necessarily imply that the Oostwoud individuals are direct ancestors of the British individuals. However, it shows that they were genetically closely-related to the population (perhaps yet to be sampled) that moved into Britain from continental Europe.

We investigated the magnitude of population replacement in Britain with qpAdm,2 modelling the genome-wide ancestry of Neolithic, Copper and Bronze Age individuals (including Beaker Complex-associated individuals) as a mixture of continental Beaker Complex-associated samples (using the Oostwoud individuals as a surrogate) and the British Neolithic population (Supplementary Information, section 8). During the first centuries after the initial contact (between ~2450–2000 BCE), ancestry proportions were variable (Fig. 3), consistent with migrant communities that were just beginning to mix with the previously established Neolithic population of Britain. After ~2000 BCE, individuals were more homogeneous, with less variation in ancestry proportions and a modest increase in Neolithic-related ancestry (Fig. 3), which could represent admixture with persisting British populations with high levels of Neolithic-related ancestry (or alternatively incoming continental populations with higher proportions of Neolithic-related ancestry). In either case, our results imply a minimum of 90±2% local population turnover by the Middle Bronze Age (~1500–1000 BCE), with no significant decrease observed in 5 samples from the Late Bronze Age. While the exact turnover rate and its geographic pattern will be refined with more ancient samples, our results imply that for individuals from Britain during and after the Beaker period, a very high fraction of their DNA derives from ancestors who lived in continental Europe prior to 2450 BCE. An independent line of evidence for population turnover comes from uniparental markers. While Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b was completely absent in Neolithic individuals (n=33), it represents more than 90% of the Y-chromosomes during Copper and Bronze Age Britain (n=52) (Fig. 3). The introduction of new mtDNA haplogroups such as I, R1a and U4, which were present in Beaker-associated populations from continental Europe but not in Neolithic Britain (Supplementary Table 3), suggests that both men and women were involved.

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Population transformation in Britain associated with the arrival of the Beaker Complex

Modelling Neolithic, Copper and Bronze Age (including Beaker Complex-associated) individuals from Britain as a mixture of continental Beaker Complex-associated individuals (red) and the Neolithic population from Britain (blue). Each bar represents genome-wide mixture proportions for one individual. Individuals are ordered chronologically and included in the plot if represented by more than 100,000 SNPs. Circles indicate the Y-chromosome haplogroup for male individuals.

Our genetic time transect in Britain also allowed us to track the frequencies of alleles with known phenotypic effects. Derived alleles at rs16891982 (SLC45A2) and rs12913832 (HERC2/OCA2), which contribute to reduced skin and eye pigmentation in Europeans, dramatically increased in frequency between the Neolithic period and the Beaker and Bronze Age periods (Extended Data Fig. 7). Thus, the arrival of migrants associated with the Beaker Complex significantly altered the pigmentation phenotypes of British populations. However, the lactase persistence allele at SNP rs4988235 remained at very low frequencies across this transition, both in Britain and continental Europe, showing that the major increase in its frequency occurred in the last 3,500 years3,4,25.

Discussion

The term ‘Bell Beaker’ was introduced by late 19th-century and early 20th-century archaeologists to refer to the distinctive pottery style found across western and central Europe at the end of the Neolithic, initially hypothesized to have been spread by a genetically homogeneous population. This idea of a ‘Beaker Folk’ became unpopular after the 1960s as scepticism grew about the role of migration in mediating change in archaeological cultures26, although J.G.D. Clark speculated that the Beaker Complex expansion into Britain was an exception27, a prediction that has now been borne out by ancient genomic data.

The expansion of the Beaker Complex cannot be described by a simple one-to-one mapping of an archaeologically defined material culture to a genetically homogeneous population. This stands in contrast to other archaeological complexes, notably the Linearbandkeramik first farmers of central Europe2, the Early Bronze Age Yamnaya of the Steppe2,3, and to some extent the Corded Ware Complex of central and eastern Europe2,3. Our results support a model in which cultural transmission and human migration both played important roles, with the relative balance of these two processes depending on the region. In Iberia, the majority of Beaker-associated individuals lacked Steppe affinities and were genetically most similar to preceding Iberian populations. In central Europe, Steppe-related ancestry was widespread and we can exclude a substantial contribution from Iberian Beaker-associated individuals. The presence of Steppe-related ancestry in some Iberian individuals demonstrates that gene-flow into Iberia was, however, not uncommon during this period. These results contradict initial suggestions of gene flow into central Europe based on analysis of mtDNA28 and dental morphology29. In particular, mtDNA haplogroups H1 and H3 were proposed as markers for an out-of-Iberia Beaker expansion28, yet H3 is absent among our Iberian Beaker-associated individuals.

In other parts of Europe, the Beaker Complex expansion was driven to a substantial extent by migration. This genomic transformation is clearest in Britain due to our densely sampled time transect. The arrival of people associated with the Beaker Complex precipitated a profound demographic transformation in Britain, exemplified by the presence of individuals with large amounts of Steppe-related ancestry after 2450 BCE. We considered the possibility that an uneven geographic distribution of samples could have caused us to miss a major population lacking Steppe-derived ancestry after 2450 BCE. However, our British Beaker and Bronze Age samples are dispersed geographically, extending from England’s southeastern peninsula to the Western Isles of Scotland, and come from a wide variety of funerary contexts (rivers, caves, pits, barrows, cists and flat graves) and diverse funerary traditions (single and multiple burials in variable states of anatomical articulation), reducing the likelihood that our sampling missed major populations. We also considered the possibility that different burial practices between local and incoming populations (cremation versus inhumation) during the early stages of interaction, could result in a sampling bias against local individuals. While it is possible that such a sampling bias makes the ancestry transition appear more sudden than it in fact was, the long-term demographic impact was clearly profound, as the pervasive Steppe-related ancestry observed during the Beaker period and absent in the Neolithic persisted during the Bronze Age, and indeed remains predominant in Britain today2. These results are notable in light of strontium and oxygen isotope analyses of British skeletons from the Beaker and Bronze Age periods30, which have provided no evidence of substantial mobility over individuals’ lifetimes from locations with cooler climates or from places with geologies atypical of Britain. However, the isotope data are only sensitive to first-generation migrants and do not rule out movements from regions such as the lower Rhine area or from other geologically similar regions for which DNA sampling is still sparse. Further sampling of regions on the European continent may reveal additional candidate sources.

By analysing DNA data from ancient individuals, we have been able to provide constraints on the interpretations of the processes underlying cultural and social changes in Europe during the third millennium BCE. Our results motivate further archaeological research to identify the changes in social organization, technology, subsistence, climate, population sizes31 or pathogen exposure32,33 that could have precipitated the demographic changes uncovered in this study.

Methods

Ancient DNA analysis

We screened skeletal samples for DNA preservation in dedicated clean rooms. We extracted DNA34–36 and prepared barcoded next generation sequencing libraries, the majority of which were treated with uracil-DNA glycosylase to greatly reduce the damage (except at the terminal nucleotide) that is characteristic of ancient DNA37,38 (Supplementary Information, section 4). We initially enriched libraries for sequences overlapping the mitochondrial genome39 and ~3000 nuclear SNPs using synthesized baits (CustomArray Inc.) that we PCR amplified. We sequenced the enriched material on an Illumina NextSeq instrument with 2x76 cycles, and 2x7 cycles to read out the two indices40. We merged read pairs with the expected barcodes that overlapped by at least 15 bases, mapped the merged sequences to hg19 and to the reconstructed mitochondrial DNA consensus sequence41 using the samse command in bwa (v0.6.1)42, and removed duplicated sequences. We evaluated DNA authenticity by estimating the rate of mismatching to the consensus mitochondrial sequence43, and also requiring that the rate of damage at the terminal nucleotide was at least 3% for UDG-treated libraries43 and 10% for non-UDG-treated libraries44.

For libraries that were promising after screening, we enriched in two consecutive rounds for sequences overlapping 1,233,013 SNPs (‘1240k SNP capture’)2,10 and sequenced 2x76 cycles and 2x7 cycles on an Illumina NextSeq500 instrument. We processed the data bioinformatically as for the mitochondrial capture data, this time mapping only to the human reference genome hg19 and merging the data from different libraries of the same individual. We further evaluated authenticity by studying the ratio of X-to-Y chromosome reads and estimating X-chromosome contamination in males based on the rate of heterozygosity45. Samples with evidence of contamination were either filtered out or restricted to sequences with terminal cytosine deamination to remove sequences that derived from modern contaminants. Finally, we filtered out from our genome-wide analysis dataset samples with fewer than 10,000 targeted SNPs covered at least once and samples that were first-degree relatives of others in the dataset (keeping the sample with the larger number of covered SNPs) (Supplementary Table 1).

Mitochondrial haplogroup determination

We used the mitochondrial capture bam files to determine the mitochondrial haplogroup of each sample with new data, restricting to sequences with MAPQ≥30 and base quality ≥30. First, we constructed a consensus sequence with samtools and bcftools46, using a majority rule and requiring a minimum coverage of 2. We called haplogroups with HaploGrep247 based on phylotree48 (mtDNA tree Build 17 (18 Feb 2016)). Mutational differences compared to the revised Cambridge Reference Sequence (rCRS) and corresponding haplogroups can be viewed in Supplementary Table 2. We computed haplogroup frequencies for relevant ancient populations (Supplementary Table 3) after removing close relatives with the same mtDNA.

Y-chromosome analysis

We determined Y-chromosome haplogroups for both new and published samples (Supplementary Information, section 5). We made use of the sequences mapping to 1240k Y-chromosome targets, restricting to sequences with mapping quality ≥30 and bases with quality ≥30. We called haplogroups by determining the most derived mutation for each sample, using the nomenclature of the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (http://www.isogg.org) version 11.110 (21 April 2016). Haplogroups and their supporting derived mutations can be viewed in Supplementary Table 4.

Merging newly generated data with published data

We assembled two datasets for genome-wide analyses:

  • HO includes 2,572 present-day individuals from worldwide populations genotyped on the Human Origins Array11,12,49 and 683 ancient individuals. The ancient set includes 211 Beaker Complex individuals (195 newly reported, 7 with shotgun data3 for which we generated 1240k capture data and 9 previously published3,4), 68 newly reported individuals from relevant ancient populations and 298 previously published12,18,19,21–23,50–57 individuals (Supplementary Table 1). We kept 591,642 autosomal SNPs after intersecting autosomal SNPs in the 1240k capture with the analysis set of 594,924 SNPs from Lazaridis et al.11.
  • HOIll includes the same set of ancient samples and 300 present-day individuals from 142 populations sequenced to high coverage as part of the Simons Genome Diversity Project13. For this dataset, we used 1,054,671 autosomal SNPs, excluding SNPs of the 1240k array located on sex chromosomes or with known functional effects.

For each individual, we represented the allele at each SNP by randomly sampling one sequence, discarding the first and the last two nucleotides of each sequence.

Abbreviations

We used the following abbreviations in population labels: E, Early; M, Middle; L, Late; N, Neolithic; CA, Copper Age; BA, Bronze Age; BC, Beaker complex; N_Iberia, Northern Iberia; C_Iberia, Central Iberia; SE_Iberia, Southeast Iberia; SW_Iberia, Southwest Iberia.

Principal component analysis

We carried out principal component analysis (PCA) on the HO dataset using the smartpca program in EIGENSOFT58. We computed principal components on 990 present-day West Eurasians and projected ancient individuals using lsqproject: YES and shrinkmode: YES.

ADMIXTURE analysis

We performed model-based clustering analysis using ADMIXTURE17 on the HO reference dataset, including 2,572 present-day individuals from worldwide populations and the ancient individuals. First, we carried out LD-pruning on the dataset using PLINK59 with the flag --indep-pairwise 200 25 0.4, leaving 306,393 SNPs. We ran ADMIXTURE with the cross validation (--cv) flag specifying from K=2 to K=20 clusters, with 20 replicates for each value of K and keeping for each value of K the replicate with highest log likelihood. In Extended Data Fig. 3b we show the cluster assignments at K=8 of newly reported individuals and other relevant ancient samples for comparison. We chose this value of K as it was the lowest one for which components of ancestry related both to Iranian Neolithic farmers and European Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were maximized.

f-statistics

We computed f-statistics on the HOIll dataset using ADMIXTOOLS49 with default parameters (Supplementary Information, section 6). We used qpDstat with f4mode:Yes for f4-statistics and qp3Pop for outgroup f3-statistics. We computed standard errors using a weighted block jackknife60 over 5 Mb blocks.

Inference of mixture proportions

We estimated ancestry proportions on the HOIll dataset using qpAdm2 and a basic set of 9 Outgroups: Mota, Ust_Ishim, MA1, Villabruna, Mbuti, Papuan, Onge, Han, Karitiana. For some analyses (Supplementary Information, section 8) we added additional outgroups to this basic set.

Admixture graph modelling

We modelled the relationships between populations in an Admixture Graph framework with the software qpGraph in ADMIXTOOLS49, using the HOIll dataset and Mbuti as an outgroup (Supplementary Information, section 7).

Allele frequency estimation from read counts

We used allele counts at each SNP to perform maximum likelihood estimation of allele frequencies in ancient populations as in ref.4. In Extended Data Fig. 7, we show derived allele frequency estimates at three SNPs of functional importance for different ancient populations.

Data availability

All 1240k and mitochondrial capture sequencing data are available from the European Nucleotide Archive, accession number PRJEB23635.

The genotype dataset is available from the Reich Lab website at https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/datasets.

Extended Data

Extended Data Figure 1

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Beaker complex artefacts

a, ‘All-Over-Cord’ Beaker from Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. Photo: ãNational Museums Scotland. b, Beaker Complex grave goods from La Sima III barrow, Soria, Spain61. The set includes Beaker pots of the so-called ‘Maritime style’. Photo: Junta de Castilla y León, Archivo Museo Numantino, Alejandro Plaza.

Extended Data Figure 2

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Ancient individuals with previously published genome-wide data used in this study

a, Sampling locations. b, Time ranges. W/E/S/CHG, Western/Eastern/Scandinavian/Caucasus hunter-gatherers; E, Early; M, Middle; L, Late; N, Neolithic; CA, Copper Age; BA, Bronze Age. Map data from the R package maps.

Extended Data Figure 3

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Population structure

a, Principal component analysis of 990 present-day West Eurasian individuals (grey dots), with previously published (pale yellow) and new ancient samples projected onto the first two principal components. b, ADMIXTURE clustering analysis with k=8 showing ancient individuals. W/E/S/CHG, Western/Eastern/Scandinavian/Caucasus hunter-gatherers; E, Early; M, Middle; L, Late; N, Neolithic; CA, Copper Age; BA, Bronze Age.

Extended Data Figure 4

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Hunter-gatherer affinities in Neolithic/Copper Age Europe

Differential affinity to hunter-gatherer individuals (LaBraña156 from Spain and KO162 from Hungary) in European populations before the emergence of the Beaker Complex. See Supplementary Information, section 8 for mixture proportions and standard errors computed with qpAdm. E, Early; M, Middle; L, Late; N, Neolithic; CA, Copper Age; BA, Bronze Age; N_Iberia, Northern Iberia; C_Iberia, Central Iberia.

Extended Data Figure 5

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Modelling the relationships between Neolithic populations

a, Admixture graph fitting a Test population as a mixture of sources related to both Iberia_EN and Hungary_EN. b, Likelihood distribution for models with different proportions of the source related to Iberia_EN (green admixture edge in (a)) when Test is England_N, Scotland_N or France_MLN. E, Early; M, Middle; L, Late; N, Neolithic.

Extended Data Figure 6

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Genetic affinity between Beaker Complex-associated individuals from southern England and the Netherlands

a, f-statistics of the form f4(Mbuti, Test; BK_Netherlands_Tui, BK_England_SOU). Negative values indicate that Test is closer to BK_Netherlands_Tui than to BK_England_SOU, and the opposite for positive values. Error bars represent ±3 standard errors. b, Outgroup-f3 statistics of the form f3(Mbuti; BK_England_SOU, Test) measuring shared genetic drift between BK_England_SOU and other Beaker Complex-associated groups. Error bars represent ±1 standard errors. Number of individuals for each group is given in parentheses. BK_Netherlands_Tui, Beaker-associated individuals from De Tuithoorn, Oostwoud, the Netherlands; BK_England_SOU, Beaker-associated individuals from southern England. See Supplementary Table 1 for individuals associated to each population label.

Extended Data Figure 7

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Derived allele frequencies at three SNPs of functional importance

Error bars represent 1.9-log-likelihood support interval. The red dashed lines show allele frequencies in the 1000 Genomes GBR population (present-day people from Great Britain). Sample sizes are 50, 98, and 117 for Britain Neolithic, Britain CA-BA and Central European BC, respectively. BC, Beaker Complex; CA, Copper Age; BA, Bronze Age.

Extended Data Table 1

Sites from outside Britain with new genome-wide data reported in this study.

SiteNApprox. date range (BCE)Country
Brandysek122900–2200Czech Republic
Kněževes22500–1900Czech Republic
Lochenice12500–1900Czech Republic
Lovosice II12500–1900Czech Republic
Moravská Nová Ves42300–1900Czech Republic
Prague 5 - Malá Ohrada12500–2200Czech Republic
Prague 5, Jinonice142200–1700Czech Republic
Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce Street122500–1900Czech Republic
Radovesice132500–2200Czech Republic
Veiké Přílepy32500–1900Czech Republic
Clos de Roque, Saint Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume34700–4500France
Collet Redon, La Couronne-Martigues13500–3100France
Hégenheim Necropole, Haut-Rhin12800–2500France
La Fare, Forcalquier12500–2200France
Marlens, Sur les Barmes, Haute-Savoie12500–2100France
Mondelange, PAC de la Sente, Moselle22400–1900France
Rouffach, Haut-Rhin12300–2100France
Sierentz, Les Villas d’Aurele, Haut-Rhin22600–2300France
Villard, Lauzet-Ubaye22200–1900France
Alburg-Lerchenhaid, Spedition Häring, Bavaria132500–2100Germany
Augsburg Sportgelände, Augsburg, Bavaria62500–2000Germany
Hugo-Eckener-Straße, Augsburg, Bavaria32500–2000Germany
Irlbach, County of Straubing-Bogen, Bavaria172500–2000Germany
Künzing-Bruck, Lkr. Deggendorf, Bavaria32500–2000Germany
Landau an der Isar, Bavaria52500–2000Germany
Manching-Oberstimm, Bavaria22500–2000Germany
Osterhofen-Altenmarkt, Bavaria42600–2000Germany
Unterer Talweg 58–62, Augsburg, Bavaria22500–2200Germany
Unterer Talweg 85, Augsburg, Bavaria12400–2100Germany
Weichering, Bavaria42500–2000Germany
Worms-Herrnsheim, Rhineland-Palatinate12500–2000Germany
Budakalász, Csajerszke (M0 Site 12)22600–2200Hungary
Budapest-Békásmegyer32500–2100Hungary
Mezőcsát-Hörcsögös43400–3000Hungary
Szigetszentmiklós-Üdülősor42500–2200Hungary
Szigetszentmiklós,Felső Ürge-hegyi dűlő62500–2200Hungary
Pergole 2, Partanna, Sicily32500–1900Italy
Via Guidorossi, Parma, Emilia Romagna32200–1900Italy
Dzielnica12300–2000Poland
Iwiny12300–2000Poland
Jordanów Œląqski12300–2200Poland
Kornice42500–2100Poland
Racibórz-Stara Wieś12300–2000Poland
Samborzec32500–2100Poland
Strachów12000–1800Poland
Żerniki Wielkie12300–2100Poland
Bolores, Estremadura12800–2600Portugal
Cova da Moura, Torres Vedras12300–2100Portugal
Galeria da Cisterna, Almonda22500–2200Portugal
Verdelha dos Ruivos, District of Lisbon32700–2300Portugal
Arroyal I, Burgos52600–2200Spain
Camino de las Yeseras, Madrid142800–1700Spain
Camino del Molino, Caravaca, Murcia42900–2100Spain
Humanejos, Madrid112900–2000Spain
La Magdalena, Madrid32500–2000Spain
Paris Street, Cerdanyola, Barcelona102900–2300Spain
Virgazal, Tablada de Rudrón, Burgos12300–2000Spain
Sion-Petit-Chasseur, Dolmen XI32500–2000Switzerland
De Tuithoorn, Oostwoud, Noord-Holland112600–1600The Netherlands

Extended Data Table 2

Sites from Britain with new genome-wide data reported in this study.

SiteNApprox. date range (BCE)Country
Abingdon Spring Road cemetery, Oxfordshire, England12500–2200Great Britain
Amesbury Down, Wiltshire, England132500–1300Great Britain
Banbury Lane, Northamptonshire, England33400–3100Great Britain
Barrow Hills, Radley, Oxfordshire, England12300–1800Great Britain
Barton Stacey, Hampshire, England12200–2000Great Britain
Baston and Langtoft, South Lincolnshire, England21700–1600Great Britain
Biddenham Loop, Bedfordshire, England91600–1300Great Britain
Boscombe Airfield, Wiltshire, England11800–1600Great Britain
Canada Farm, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England22500–2300Great Britain
Carsington Pasture Cave, Derbyshire, England23700–2000Great Britain
Central Flying School, Upavon, Wiltshire, England12500–1800Great Britain
Cissbury Flint Mine, Worthing, West Sussex, England13600–3400Great Britain
Clay Farm, Cambridgeshire, England21400–1300Great Britain
Dairy Farm, Willington, England12300–1900Great Britain
Ditchling Road, Brighton, Sussex, England12500–1900Great Britain
Eton Rowing Course, Buckinghamshire, England23600–2900Great Britain
Flying School, Netheravon, Wiltshire, England22500–1800Great Britain
Fussell’s Lodge, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England23800–3600Great Britain
Lesser Kelco Cave, Giggleswick Scar, North Yorkshire, England13700–3500Great Britain
Hasting Hill, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England22500–1800Great Britain
Hexham Golf Course, Northumberland, England12000–1800Great Britain
Low Hauxley, Northumberland, England22100–1600Great Britain
Melton Quarry, East Riding of Yorkshire, England11900–1700Great Britain
Neale’s Cave, Paington, Devon, England12000–1600Great Britain
Nr. Ablington, Figheldean, England12500–1800Great Britain
Nr. Millbarrow, Wiltshire, England13600–3400Great Britain
Over Narrows, Needingworth Quarry, England52200–1300Great Britain
Porton Down, Wiltshire, England22500–1900Great Britain
Raven Scar Cave, Ingleton, North Yorkshire, England11100–900Great Britain
Reaverhill, Barrasford, Northumberland, England12100–2000Great Britain
River Thames, Mortlake/Syon Reach, London, England22500–1700Great Britain
Staxton Beacon, Staxton, England12400–1600Great Britain
Summerhill, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, England11900–1700Great Britain
East Kent Access (Phase II), Thanet, Kent, England42100–1700Great Britain
Totty Pot, Cheddar, Somerset, England12800–2500Great Britain
Trumpington Meadows, Cambridge, England22200–2000Great Britain
Turners Yard, Fordham, Cambridgeshire, England11700–1500Great Britain
Upper Swell, Chipping Norton, Gloucestershire, England14000–3300Great Britain
Waterhall Farm, Chippenham, Cambridgeshire, England12000–1700Great Britain
West Deeping, Lincolnshire, England12300–2000Great Britain
Whitehawk, Brighton, Sussex, England13700–3400Great Britain
Wick Barrow, Stogursey, Somerset, England12400–2000Great Britain
Wilsford Down, Wilsford-cum-Lake, Wiltshire, England22400–2000Great Britain
Windmill Fields, Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England42300–2000Great Britain
Yarnton, Oxfordshire, England42500–1900Great Britain
Aberdour Road, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland12000–1800Great Britain
Achavanich, Wick, Highland, Scotland12500–2100Great Britain
Boatbridge Quarry, Thankerton, Scotland12400–2100Great Britain
Clachaig, Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland13500–3400Great Britain
Covesea Cave 2, Moray, Scotland32100–800Great Britain
Covesea Caves, Moray, Scotland21000–800Great Britain
Distillery Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland33800–3400Great Britain
Doune, Perth and Kinross, Scotland11800–1600Great Britain
Dryburn Bridge, East Lothian, Scotland22300–1900Great Britain
Eweford Cottages, East Lothian, Scotland12100–1900Great Britain
Holm of Papa Westray North, Orkney, Scotland43500–3100Great Britain
Isbister, Orkney, Scotland103300–2300Great Britain
Leith, Merrilees Close, City of Edinburgh, Scotland21600–1500Great Britain
Longniddry, Evergreen House, Coast Road, East Lothian, Scotlan31500–1300Great Britain
Longniddry, Grainfoot, East Lothian, Scotland11300–1000Great Britain
Macarthur Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland14000–3800Great Britain
Pabay Mor, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland11400–1300Great Britain
Point of Cott, Orkney, Scotland23700–3100Great Britain
Quoyness, Orkney, Scotland13100–2900Great Britain
Raschoille Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland94000–2900Great Britain
Sorisdale, Coll, Argyll and Bute, Scotland12500–2100Great Britain
Stenchme, Lop Ness, Orkney, Scotland12000–1500Great Britain
Thurston Mains, Innerwick, East Lothian, Scotland12300–2000Great Britain
Tulach an t’Sionnach, Highland, Scotland13700–3500Great Britain
Tulloch of Assery A, Highland, Scotland13700–3400Great Britain
Tulloch of Assery B, Highland, Scotland13800–3600Great Britain
Unstan, Orkney, Scotland13400–3100Great Britain
Culver Hole Cave, Port Eynon, West Glamorgan, Wales11600–800Great Britain
Great Orme Mines, Llandudno, North Wales11700–1600Great Britain
North Face Cave, Llandudno, North Wales11400–1200Great Britain
Rhos Ddigre, Llanarmon-yn-lâl, Denbighshire, Wales13100–2900Great Britain
Tinkinswood, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales13800–3600Great Britain

Extended Data Table 3

111 newly reported radiocarbon dates.

SampleDateLocationCountry
I50242278–2032 calBCE (3740±35 BP, Poz-84460)KnĕževesCzech Republic
I49462296–2146 calBCE (3805±20 BP, PSUAMS-2801)Prague 5, Jinonice, Butovická StreetCzech Republic
I48952273–2047 calBCE (3750±20 BP, PSUAMS-2852)Prague 5, Jinonice, Butovická StreetCzech Republic
I48962288–2142 calBCE (3785±20 BP, PSUAMS-2853)Prague 5, Jinonice, Butovická StreetCzech Republic
I48841882–1745 calBCE (3480±20 BP, PSUAMS-2842)Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce StreetCzech Republic
I48852289–2143 calBCE (3790±20 BP, PSUAMS-2843)Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce StreetCzech Republic
I48862205–2042 calBCE (3740±20 BP, PSUAMS-2844)Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce StreetCzech Republic
I48872201–2039 calBCE (3730±20 BP, PSUAMS-2845)Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce StreetCzech Republic
I48882190–2029 calBCE (3700±20 BP, PSUAMS-2846)Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce StreetCzech Republic
I48892281–2062 calBCE (3765±20 BP, PSUAMS-2847)Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce StreetCzech Republic
I48912281–2062 calBCE (3765±20 BP, PSUAMS-2848)Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce StreetCzech Republic
I48921881–1701 calBCE (3475±20 BP, PSUAMS-2849)Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce StreetCzech Republic
I48934449–4348 calBCE (5550±20 BP, PSUAMS-2850)Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce StreetCzech Republic
I48944488–4368 calBCE (5610±20 BP, PSUAMS-2851)Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce StreetCzech Republic
I49452291–2144 calBCE (3795±20 BP, PSUAMS-2854)Prague 8, Kobylisy, Ke Stírce StreetCzech Republic
I43054825–4616 calBCE (5860±35 BP, PSUAMS-2225)Clos de Roque, Saint Maximin-la-Sainte-BaumeFrance
I43044787–4589 calBCE (5830±35 BP, PSUAMS-2226)Clos de Roque, Saint Maximin-la-Sainte-BaumeFrance
I43034778–4586 calBCE (5820±30 BP, PSUAMS-2260)Clos de Roque, Saint Maximin-la-Sainte-BaumeFrance
I13922833–2475 calBCE (4047±29 BP, MAMS-25935)Hégenheim Necropole, Haut-RhinFrance
I38752133–1946 calBCE (3655±25 BP, PSUAMS-1834)Villard, Lauzet-UbayeFrance
I38742200–2035 calBCE (3725±25 BP, PSUAMS-1835)Villard, Lauzet-UbayeFrance
I35932397–2145 calBCE (3817±26 BP, BRAMS-1215)Alburg-Lerchenhaid, Spedition Häring, Stkr. Straubing, BavariaGermany
I35902335–2140 calBCE (3802±26 BP, BRAMS-1217)Alburg-Lerchenhaid, Spedition Häring, Stkr. Straubing, BavariaGermany
I35922457–2203 calBCE (3844±33 BP, BRAMS-1218)Alburg-Lerchenhaid, Spedition Häring, Stkr. Straubing, BavariaGermany
I50172460–2206 calBCE (3855±35 BP, Poz-84458)Augsburg Sportgelände, Augsburg, BavariaGermany
I42502433–2149 calBCE (3825±26 BP, BRAMS-1219)Irlbach, County of Straubing-Bogen, BavariaGermany
I50212571–2341 calBCE (3955±35 BP, Poz-84553)Osterhofen-Altenmarkt, BavariaGermany
E09537_d2471–2298 calBCE (3909±29 BP, MAMS-29074)Unterer Talweg 58–62, Augsburg, BavariaGermany
E095382464–2210 calBCE (3870±30 BP, MAMS-29075)Unterer Talweg 58–62, Augsburg, BavariaGermany
I53852455–2147 calBCE (3827±33 BP, SUERC-71005)Achavanich, Wick, Highland, ScotlandGreat Britain
I24572199–2030 calBCE (3717±28 BP, SUERC-69975)Amesbury Down, Wiltshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I24162455–2151 calBCE (3830±30 BP, Beta-432804)Amesbury Down, Wiltshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I25962273–2034 calBCE (3739±30 BP, NZA-32484)Amesbury Down, Wiltshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I25662204–2035 calBCE (3734±25 BP, NZA-32490)Amesbury Down, Wiltshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I25982135–1953 calBCE (3664±30 BP, NZA-32494)Amesbury Down, Wiltshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I24182455–2200 calBCE (3836±25 BP, NZA-32788)Amesbury Down, Wiltshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I25652457–2147 calBCE (3829±38 BP, OxA-13562)Amesbury Down, Wiltshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I24572467–2290 calBCE (3890±30 BP, SUERC-36210)Amesbury Down, Wiltshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I24602022–1827 calBCE (3575±27 BP, SUERC-53041)Amesbury Down, Wiltshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I24592455–2150 calBCE (3829±30 BP, SUERC-54823)Amesbury Down, Wiltshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I53732194–1980 calBCE (3694±25 BP, BRAMS-1230)Carsington Pasture Cave, Brassington, Derbyshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I29883516–3361 calBCE (4645±29 BP, SUERC-68711)Clachaig, Arran, North Ayrshire, ScotlandGreat Britain
I2860969–815 calBCE (2738±29 BP, SUERC-68715)Covesea Cave 2, Moray, ScotlandGreat Britain
I2861976–828 calBCE (2757±29 BP, SUERC-68716)Covesea Cave 2, Moray, ScotlandGreat Britain
I31322118–1887 calBCE (3614±33 BP, SUERC-69070)Covesea Cave 2, Moray, ScotlandGreat Britain
I3130977–829 calBCE (2758±29 BP, SUERC-68713)Covesea Caves, Moray, ScotlandGreat Britain
I2859910–809 calBCE (2714±29 BP, SUERC-68714)Covesea Caves, Moray, ScotlandGreat Britain
I24522198–1980 calBCE (3700±30 BP, Beta-444979)Dairy Farm, Willington, EnglandGreat Britain
I24522276–2029 calBCE (3735±35 BP, Poz-83405)Dairy Farm, Willington, EnglandGreat Britain
I26593761–3643 calBCE (4914±27 BP, SUERC-68702)Distillery Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, ScotlandGreat Britain
I26603513–3352 calBCE (4631±29 BP, SUERC-68703)Distillery Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, ScotlandGreat Britain
I26913700–3639 calBCE (4881±25 BP, SUERC-68704)Distillery Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, ScotlandGreat Britain
I67742287–2044 calBCE (3760±30 BP, SUERC-74755)Ditchling Road, Brighton, Sussex, EnglandGreat Britain
I26053631–3372 calBCE (4710±35 BP, Poz-83483)Eton Rowing Course, Buckinghamshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I17751730–1532 calBCE (3344±27 BP, OxA-14308)Great Orme, Llandudno, North WalesGreat Britain
I25741414–1227 calBCE (3065±36 BP, SUERC-62072)Great Orme, Llandudno, North WalesGreat Britain
I26122464–2208 calBCE (3865±35 BP, Poz-83492)Hasting Hill, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, EnglandGreat Britain
I26092022–1771 calBCE (3560±40 BP, Poz-83423)Hexham Golf Course, Northumberland, EnglandGreat Britain
I26363519–3361 calBCE (4651±33 BP, SUERC-68640)Holm of Papa Westray North, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I26373629–3370 calBCE (4697±33 BP, SUERC-68641)Holm of Papa Westray North, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I26503638–3380 calBCE (4754±36 BP, SUERC-68642)Holm of Papa Westray North, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I26513360–3098 calBCE (4525±36 BP, SUERC-68643)Holm of Papa Westray North, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I26302580–2463 calBCE (3999±32 BP, SUERC-68632)Isbister, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I29322570–2347 calBCE (3962±29 BP, SUERC-68721)Isbister, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I29333010–2885 calBCE (4309±29 BP, SUERC-68722)Isbister, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I29353335–3011 calBCE (4451±29 BP, SUERC-68723)Isbister, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I30853338–3026 calBCE (4471±29 BP, SUERC-68724)Isbister, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I29783335–3023 calBCE (4464±29 BP, SUERC-68725)Isbister, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I29793333–2941 calBCE (4447±29 BP, SUERC-68726)Isbister, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I29343338–3022 calBCE (4466±33 BP, SUERC-69071)Isbister, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I29773008–2763 calBCE (4275±33 BP, SUERC-69072)Isbister, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I26573951–3780 calBCE (5052±30 BP, SUERC-68701)Macarthur Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, ScotlandGreat Britain
I54411938–1744 calBCE (3512±37 BP, OxA-16522)Neale’s Cave, Paington, Devon, EnglandGreat Britain
I49493629–3376 calBCE (4715±20 BP, PSUAMS-2513)Nr. Millbarrow, Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I29803360–3101 calBCE (4530±33 BP, SUERC-69073)Point of Cott, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I27963705–3535 calBCE (4856±33 BP, SUERC-69074)Point of Cott, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I26313097–2906 calBCE (4384±36 BP, SUERC-68633)Quoyness, Orkney, ScotlandGreat Britain
I31353640–3383 calBCE (4770±30 BP, PSUAMS-2068)Raschoille Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, ScotlandGreat Britain
I31363520–3365 calBCE (4665±30 BP, PSUAMS-2069)Raschoille Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, ScotlandGreat Britain
I31333631–3377 calBCE (4725±20 BP, PSUAMS-2154)Raschoille Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, ScotlandGreat Britain
I31343633–3377 calBCE (4730±25 BP, PSUAMS-2155)Raschoille Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, ScotlandGreat Britain
I31383263–2923 calBCE (4415±25 BP, PSUAMS-2156)Raschoille Cave, Oban, Argyll and Bute, ScotlandGreat Britain
I26101935–1745 calBCE (3515±35 BP, Poz-83498)Summerhill Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, EnglandGreat Britain
I26343703–3534 calBCE (4851±34 BP, SUERC-68638)Tulach an t’Sionnach, Highland ScotlandGreat Britain
I26353652–3389 calBCE (4796±37 BP, SUERC-68639)Tulloch of Assery A, Highland, ScotlandGreat Britain
I26333765–3641 calBCE (4911±32 BP, SUERC-68634)Tulloch of Assery B, Highland, ScotlandGreat Britain
I24532288–2040 calBCE (3760±35 BP, Poz-83404)West Deeping, Lincolnshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I24452136–1929 calBCE (3650±35 BP, PoZ-83407)Yarnton. Oxfordshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I24472115–1910 calBCE (3625±25 BP, PSUAMS-2336)Yarnton, Oxfordshire, EnglandGreat Britain
I27862458–2205 calBCE (3850±35 BP, Poz-83639)Szigetszentmiklós-Felső-Urge hegyi dűlőHungary
I27872457–2201 calBCE (3840±35 BP, Poz-83640)Szigetszentmiklós-Felső-Urge hegyi dűlőHungary
I27412457–2153 calBCE (3835±35 BP, Poz-83641)Szigetszentmiklós-Felső-Urge hegyi dűlőHungary
I65312286–2038 calBCE (3755±35 BP, Poz-86947)DzielnicaPoland
I65792335–2046 calBCE (3780±35 BP, Poz-75954)IwinyPoland
I65342456–2149 calBCE (3830±35 BP, Poz-75936)KornicePoland
I65822343–2057 calBCE (3790±35 BP, POZ-75951)KornicePoland
I42512431–2150 calBCE (3825±25 BP, PSUAMS-2321)Samborzec 1Poland
I42522285–2138 calBCE (3780±20 BP, PSUAMS-2338)Samborzec 1Poland
I42532456–2207 calBCE (3850±20 BP, PSUAMS-2339)Samborzec 1Poland
I65382008–1765 calBCE (3545±35 BP, Poz-86950)StrachówPoland
I65832289–2050 calBCE (3770±30 BP, Poz-65207)Zerniki WielkiePoland
I42292288–2134 calBCE (3775±25 BP, PSUAMS-1750)Cova da MouraPortugal
I04622566–2345 calBCE (3950±26 BP, MAMS-25936)Arroyal I, BurgosSpain
I42472464–2210 calBCE (3870±30 BP, PSUAMS-2120)Camino de las Yeseras, MadridSpain
I42452460–2291 calBCE (3875±20 BP, PSUAMS-2320)Camino de las Yeseras, MadridSpain
I02572572–2348 calBCE (3965±29 BP, MAMS-25937)Paris Street, Cerdanyola, BarcelonaSpain
I08252474–2298 calBCE (3915±29 BP, MAMS-25939)Paris Street, Cerdanyola, BarcelonaSpain
I08262834–2482 calBCE (4051±28 BP, MAMS-25940)Paris Street, Cerdanyola, BarcelonaSpain
I40682131–1951 calBCE (3655±20 BP, PSUAMS-2318)De Tuithoorn, Oostwoud, Noord-HollandThe Netherlands
I40761882–1750 calBCE (3490±20 BP, PSUAMS-2319)De Tuithoorn, Oostwoud, Noord-HollandThe Netherlands
I40752118–1937 calBCE (3635±20 BP, PSUAMS-2337)De Tuithoorn, Oostwoud, Noord-HollandThe Netherlands

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Acknowledgments

We thank D. Anthony, J. Koch, I. Mathieson and C. Renfrew for comments, and A. Cooper for support from the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA. We thank the Bristol Radiocarbon Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility (BRAMS), University of Bristol. We thank A. C. Sousa, A. Martín Cólliga, L. Loe, C. Roth, E. Carmona Ballesteros, M. Kunst, S.-A. Coupar, M. Giesen and G. Drinkall for assistance with samples, and E. Willerslev for supporting several co-authors at the Centre for GeoGenetics. We thank the Museo Arqueológico Regional de la Comunidad de Madrid, the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, the Orkney Museum, the Museu Municipal de Torres Vedras, the Great North Museum: Hancock, the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Sunderland Museum and the Museum of London for facilitating sample collection. Support for this project was provided by the Czech Academy of Sciences grant RVO:67985912; by Momentum Mobility Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; by the Wellcome Trust [100713/Z/12/Z]; by Irish Research Council grant GOIPG/2013/36 to D.F.; by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (WIN project ‘Times of Upheaval’) to P.W.S., J.K. and A.M.; by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences grant M16-0455:1 to K.K.; by the National Science Centre, Poland grant DEC-2013/10/E/HS3/00141 to M.Fu.; by a Spanish MINECO grant BFU2015-64699-P to C.L.-F.; by a Spanish MINECO grant HAR2016-77600-P to C.L., P.R. and C.B.; by the NSF Archaeometry program BCS-1460369 to D.J.K.; by the NFS Archaeology program BCS-1725067 to D.J.K. and T. H.; and by Allen Discovery Center grant from the Paul Allen Foundation, US National Science Foundation HOMINID grant BCS-1032255, US National Institutes of Health grant GM100233, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to D.R.

Footnotes

Author Contributions

S.B., M.E.A., N.R., A.Sz.-N., A.M., N.B., M.F., E.H., M.M., J.O., K.S., O.C., D.K., F.C., R.P., J.K., W.H., I.B. and D.R. performed or supervised laboratory work. G.T.C. and D.J.K. undertook the radiocarbon dating of a large fraction of samples. I.A., K.K., A.B., K.W.A., A.A.F., E.B., M.B.-B., D.B., C.B., J.V.M., R.M., C.Bo., L.B., T.A., L.Bü., S.C., L.C.N., O.E.C., G.T.C., B.C., A.D., K.E.D., N.D., M.E., C.E., M.K., J.F.F., H.F., C.F., M.G., R.G.P., M.H.-U., E.Had., G.H., N.J., T.K., K.M., S.P., P.L., O.L., A.L., C.H.M., V.G.O., A.B.R., J.L.M., T.M., J.I.M, K.Mc., B.G.M., A.Mo., G.K., V.K., A.C., R.Pa., A.E., K.Kö., T.H., T.S., J.D., Z.B., M.H., P.V., M.D., F.B., R.F.F., A.H.-C., S.T., E.C., L.L., A.V., A.Z., C.W., G.D., E.G.-D., B.N., M.B., M.Lu., R.Mo., J.De., M.Be., G.B., M.Fu., A.H., M.Ma., A.R., S.L., I.S., K.T.L., J.L.C., C.L., M.P.P., P.W., T.D.P., P.P., P.-J.R., P.R., R.R., M.A.R.G., A.S., J.S., A.M.S., V.S., L.V., J.Z., D.C., T.Hi., V.H., A.Sh., K.-G.S., P.W.S., R.P., J.K., W.H., I.B., C.L.-F. and D.R. assembled archaeological material. I.O., S.M., T.B., A.M., E.A., M.L., I.L., N.P., Y.D., Z.F., D.F., D.J.K., P.d.K., T.K.H., M.G.T. and D.R. analysed data. I.O., C.L.-F. and D.R. wrote the manuscript with input from all co-authors.

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