@article {330186,
	title = {Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {577},
	year = {2020},
	month = {2020/01/01},
	pages = {665 - 670},
	abstract = {<p>Our knowledge of ancient human\&nbsp;population structure in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly prior to the advent of food production, remains limited. Here we report genome-wide DNA data from four children\&mdash;two of whom were buried approximately 8,000\&nbsp;years ago and two 3,000\&nbsp;years ago\&mdash;from Shum Laka (Cameroon), one of the earliest known archaeological sites within the probable homeland of the Bantu language group1\&ndash;11. One individual carried the deeply divergent Y chromosome haplogroup A00, which today is found almost exclusively in the same region12,13. However, the genome-wide ancestry profiles of all four individuals are most similar to those of present-day hunter-gatherers from western Central Africa, which implies that populations in western Cameroon today\&mdash;as well as speakers of Bantu languages from across the continent\&mdash;are not descended substantially from the population represented by these four people. We infer an Africa-wide phylogeny that features widespread admixture and three prominent radiations, including one that gave rise to at least four major lineages deep in the history of modern humans.</p>
},
	isbn = {1476-4687},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1929-1},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1929-1},
	author = {Lipson, Mark and Ribot, Isabelle and Mallick, Swapan and Rohland, Nadin and Olalde, I{\~n}igo and Adamski, Nicole and Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen and Lawson, Ann Marie and L{\'o}pez, Saioa and Oppenheimer, Jonas and Stewardson, Kristin and Asombang, Raymond Neba{\textquoteright}ane and Bocherens, Herv{\'e} and Bradman, Neil and Culleton, Brendan J. and Cornelissen, Els and Crevecoeur, Isabelle and de Maret, Pierre and Fomine, Forka Leypey Mathew and Lavachery, Philippe and Mindzie, Christophe Mbida and Orban, Rosine and Sawchuk, Elizabeth and Semal, Patrick and Thomas, Mark G. and Van Neer, Wim and Veeramah, Krishna R. and Kennett, Douglas J. and Patterson, Nick and Hellenthal, Garrett and Lalueza-Fox, Carles and MacEachern, Scott and Prendergast, Mary E. and Reich, David}
}
