Comment on "Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites"

doi:10.1126/science.1123936

Account Information

Guest Alerts | Access Rights | My Account | Sign In

Technical Comments

Comment on "Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites"

Albert J. Ammerman,¹^* Ron Pinhasi,² Eszter Bánffy³

On the basis of analysis of ancient DNA from early Europeanfarmers, Haak et al. (Reports, 11 November 2005, p. 1016) arguedfor the Paleolithic ancestry of modern Europeans. We stressthat the study is more limited in scope than the authors claim,in part because not all of the skeletal samples date to thetime of the Neolithic transition in a given area of Europe.

¹ Department of Classics, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA.
² School of Human and Life Sciences, Whitelands College, Roehampton University, London, UK.
³ Archaeological Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

^* Corresponding author. E-mail: Aammerman{at}mail.colgate.edu

Read the Full Text

The editors suggest the following Related Resources on Science sites:

In Science Magazine

TECHNICAL COMMENTS Response to Comment on "Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites": Joachim Burger, Detlef Gronenborn, Peter Forster, Shuichi Matsumura, Barbara Bramanti, and Wolfgang Haak (30 June 2006)
Science 312 (5782), 1875b. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1123984]
| Abstract » | Full Text » | PDF »

REPORTS Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites: Wolfgang Haak, Peter Forster, Barbara Bramanti, Shuichi Matsumura, Guido Brandt, Marc Tänzer, Richard Villems, Colin Renfrew, Detlef Gronenborn, Kurt Werner Alt, and Joachim Burger (11 November 2005)
Science 310 (5750), 1016. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1118725]
| Abstract » | Full Text » | PDF » | Supporting Online Material »