Fertile Crescent (IMAGE)

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz

Fertile Crescent

Caption

This is the Fertile Crescent (shaded) on a political map of the Near and South East. In blue are the the archaeological sites in Iran with genomes from the Neolithic period that are ancestral to modern-day South Asians. In red are Neolithic sites with genomes that are ancestral to all European early farmers.

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Ill./©: Joachim Burger, JGU

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This image may only be used in connection with the press release "Genomes from Zagros mountains reveal diff. Neolithic ancestry of Europeans & SouthAsians", issued by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on July 14, 2016.

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