Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil

Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas; Oscar Lao; Hannes Schroeder; Morten Rasmussen; Maanasa Raghavan; Ida Moltke; Paula F. Campos; Francisca Santana Sagredo; Simon Rasmussen; Vanessa F. Gonçalves; Anders Albrechtsen; Morten E. Allentoft; Jesper Stenderup; J. Victor Moreno-Mayar; Søren Brunak; Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén; Ludovic Orlando; Rasmus Nielsen; Jan Heinemeier; Jesper Olsen; Eske Willerslev

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Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil

Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Oscar Lao, Hannes Schroeder, Morten Rasmussen, Maanasa Raghavan, Ida Moltke, Paula F. Campos, Francisca Santana Sagredo, Simon Rasmussen, Vanessa F. Gonçalves, Anders Albrechtsen, Morten E. Allentoft, Jesper Stenderup, J. Victor Moreno-Mayar, Søren Brunak, Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, Ludovic Orlando, Rasmus Nielsen, Jan Heinemeier, Jesper OlsenEske Willerslev

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Understanding the peopling of the Americas remains an important and challenging question. Here, we present 14C dates, and morphological, isotopic and genomic sequence data from two human skulls from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, part of one of the indigenous groups known as ‘Botocudos’. We find that their genomic ancestry is Polynesian, with no detectable Native American component. Radiocarbon analysis of the skulls shows that the individuals had died prior to the beginning of the 19th century. Our findings could either represent genomic evidence of Polynesians reaching South America during their Pacific expansion, or European-mediated transport.

Original language	English
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	24
Issue number	21
Pages (from-to)	R1035-R1037
ISSN	0960-9822
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.078
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Malaspinas, A.-S., Lao, O., Schroeder, H., Rasmussen, M., Raghavan, M., Moltke, I., Campos, P. F., Sagredo, F. S., Rasmussen, S., Gonçalves, V. F., Albrechtsen, A., Allentoft, M. E., Stenderup, J., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Brunak, S., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Orlando, L., Nielsen, R., Heinemeier, J., ... Willerslev, E. (2014). Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil. Current Biology, 24(21), R1035-R1037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.078

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