ARQUEOLOGIA IBEROAMERICANA - ISSN 1989-4104
Vol. 53 (2024), pp. 18–28 •   1.47 MB
METHOD ARTICLE
André Luiz Campelo dos Santos,1,2 Henry S. Lavalle Sullasi 2

(1) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
(2) Department of Archaeology, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
(andre.campelo@ufpe.br, henry.lavalle@ufpe.br)


Arqueol. Iberoam.


Abstract
Archaeology involves the study of intriguing findings, and since the last century the field has benefited from scientific developments originating in the most diverse disciplines. This work aims to present a scientific development that can greatly contribute to archaeology: genomics. A discussion about the concept of ancestry, one of the possible products of the archaeogenomic approach, is also presented here along with a brief explanation of the main techniques for ancestry estimation. The availability of such a development means that archaeologists now have methods at their disposal that could not have been dreamed of just a few decades ago.

Keywords
Ancestry, Archaeology, Genomics.


Resumo
A Arqueologia envolve o estudo de descobertas intrigantes e, desde o século passado, este meio é favorecido por desenvolvimentos científicos originados nas mais diversas disciplinas. Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar um desenvolvimento científico que pode contribuir bastante para a Arqueologia: a Genômica. Uma discussão sobre o conceito de ancestralidade, um dos possíveis produtos da abordagem arqueogenômica, também é apresentada aqui, juntamente com uma breve explicação sobre as principais técnicas de estimação de ancestralidade. A existência de tal desenvolvimento significa que os arqueólogos têm agora à sua disposição variados métodos que não poderiam ter sido sonhados há apenas algumas décadas atrás.

Palavras-chave
Ancestralidade, Arqueologia, Genômica.

Cite as
Santos, A.L.C. dos; H.S.L. Sullasi. 2023.
Approaches for Ancestry Studies in Archaeogenomics.
Arqueología Iberoamericana 53: 18–28.

Other Persistent Identifiers

Received: December 26, 2023. Accepted: January 13, 2024. Published: January 24, 2024.

Acknowledgments
This study was financed in part by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil (CNPq) and the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil (CAPES)—Finance Code 001.

References

1000 Genomes Project Consortium et alii. 2015. A global reference for human genetic variation. Nature 526: 68–74. Google Scholar.

Abdi, H.; L.J. Williams. 2010. Principal component analysis. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics 2(4): 433–459.

Adams, B.J. 2007. Forensic Anthropology. Infobase Publishing.

Alexander, D.H.; J. Novembre; K. Lange. 2009. Fast model-based estimation of ancestry in unrelated individuals. Genome Research 19: 1655–1664. Google Scholar.

Bernardo, D.V.; Neves, W.A. 2009. Diversidade morfocraniana dos remanescentes ósseos humanos da Serra da Capivara: implicações para a origem do homem americano. Fumdhamentos 8: 95–106. Google Scholar.

Birx, H.J., ed. 2010. 21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook. SAGE. Google Scholar.

Bouakaze, C. et alii. 2009. Pigment phenotype and biogeographical ancestry from ancient skeletal remains: inferences from multiplexed autosomal SNP analysis. International Journal of Legal Medicine 123: 315–325. Google Scholar.

Brainerd, G.W. 1951. The Place of Chronological Ordering in Archaeological Analysis. American Antiquity 16(4): 301–313. Google Scholar.

Byrnes, J.F. et alii. 2012. mtDNA and osteological analyses of an unknown historical cemetery from upstate New York. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 4: 303–311. Google Scholar.

Carracedo, A., ed. 2005. Forensic DNA Typing Protocols. Humana Press. Google Scholar.

Cassidy, L.M. et alii. 2016. Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(2): 368–373. Google Scholar.

Chang, C.C. et alii. 2015. Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets. GigaScience 4(1): s13742-015-0047-8. Google Scholar.

Dirkmaat, D.C. et alii. 2008. New perspectives in forensic anthropology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 137(S47): 33–52. Google Scholar.

Dirkmaat, D.C.; L.L. Cabo. 2012. Forensic Anthropology: Embracing the New Paradigm. In A Companion to Forensic Anthropology, edited by D.C. Dirkmaat, pp. 1–40. Blackwell Publishing. Google Scholar.

Flegontov, P. et alii. 2019. Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America. Nature 570: 236–240. Google Scholar.

Ford, J.A.; Steward, J.H. 1954. On the Concept of Types. American Anthropologist 56(1): 42–57. Google Scholar.

Freitas, F. de O. 2001. Estudo genético-evolutivo de amostras modernas e arqueológicas de milho (Zea mays, L.) e feijão (Phaseolus vulgaris, L.). Tese (Doutorado em Agronomia). São Paulo: Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de São Paulo. Google Scholar.

Freitas, F. de O. 2002. Análises Genéticas em Material Arqueológico. Documentos 80: 7–22. Embrapa: Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia. Brasilia. Google Scholar.

Freitas, F. de O. 2006. Evidências genético-arqueológicas sobre a origem do feijão comum no Brasil. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira 41(7): 1199–1203. Google Scholar.

Goodwin, W.; A. Linacre; S. Hadi. 2011. An Introduction to Forensic Genetics. John Wiley & Sons. Google Scholar.

Halder, I. et alii. 2008. A panel of ancestry informative markers for estimating individual biogeographical ancestry and admixture from four continents: utility and applications. Human Mutation 29(5): 648–658. Google Scholar.

Hefner, J.T. 2009. Cranial Nonmetric Variation and Estimating Ancestry. Journal of Forensic Sciences 54(5): 985–995. Google Scholar.

Herrmann, B.; S. Hummel, eds. 2012. Ancient DNA: Recovery and Analysis of Genetic Material from Paleontological, Archaeological, Museum, Medical, and Forensic Specimens. Springer. Google Scholar.

Hummel, S. 2003. Ancient DNA Typing: Methods, Strategies and Applications. Springer. Google Scholar.

Hummel, S. 2007. Ancient DNA. In Handbook of Paleoanthropology, edited by W. Henke & I. Tattersall, pp. 763–790. Springer. Google Scholar.

Iscan, M.Y.; M. Steyn. 2013. The Human Skeleton in Forensic Medicine. C.C. Thomas. Google Scholar.

Kampuansai, J. et alii. 2020. Paternal genetic history of the Yong population in northern Thailand revealed by Y-chromosomal haplotypes and haplogroups. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 295: 579–589. Google Scholar.

Kayser, M. et alii. 2005. Significant genetic differentiation between Poland and Germany follows present-day political borders, as revealed by Y-chromosome analysis. Human Genetics 117: 428–443. Google Scholar.

Krogman, W.M. 1955. The human skeleton in forensic medicine. I. Postgraduate Medicine 17(2): A-48 passim. Google Scholar.

Krogman, W.M. 1962. The human skeleton in Forensic Medicine. C.C. Thomas.

Linderholm, A. 2016. Ancient DNA: the next generation—chapter and verse. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 117(1): 150–160. Google Scholar.

Martiniano, R. et alii. 2017. The population genomics of archaeological transition in west Iberia: Investigation of ancient substructure using imputation and haplotype-based methods. PLoS Genetics 13(7): e1006852. Google Scholar.

Moreno-Mayar, J.V. et alii. 2018a. Early human dispersals within the Americas. Science 362(6419): eaav2621. Google Scholar.

Moreno-Mayar, J.V. et alii. 2018b. Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans. Nature 553: 203–207. Google Scholar.

Mutzenberg, D. C. S. et alii. 2015. Fundamentos da diagênese óssea e suas formas de avaliação usando as técnicas espectroscópicas de FTIR-ATR e DRX. Clio Arqueológica 30(2): 154–188. Google Scholar.

Nagel, J. 1994. Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture. Social Problems 41(1): 152–176. Google Scholar.

Naidoo, N. et alii. 2011. Human genetics and genomics a decade after the release of the draft sequence of the human genome. Human Genomics 5: 577. Google Scholar.

Petraglia, M.D. et alii. 2012. Hominin Dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle Palaeolithic Settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49840. Google Scholar.

Posth, C. et alii. 2018. Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America. Cell 175(5): 1185–1197. e22. Google Scholar.

Renfrew, C. 2001. From molecular genetics to archaeogenetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98(9): 4830–4832. Google Scholar.

Renfrew, C.; P. Bahn, eds. 2013. Archaeology: The Key Concepts. Routledge. Google Scholar.

Santos, A.L.C. dos. 2016. Estudo da diagênese óssea e experimento de datação direta dos sepultamentos do Sítio Arqueológico Pedra do Alexandre, RN. 2016. Dissertação (Mestrado em Arqueologia). Recife: Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Google Scholar.

Santos, A.L.C. dos; A. Owings; H.S.L. Sullasi; O. Gokcumen; M. DeGiorgio; J. Lindo. 2022. Genomic evidence for ancient human migration routes along South America's Atlantic coast. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289: 20221078. Google Scholar.

Santos, A.L.C. dos; H.S.L. Sullasi. 2016. Implicações Microscópicas da Tafonomia ao Emprego de Métodos e Técnicas Forenses em Arqueologia. Fumdhamentos 13: 108–130. Google Scholar.

Santos, A.L.C. dos; H.S.L. Sullasi; O. Gokcumen; J. Lindo; M. DeGiorgio. 2023. Spatiotemporal fluctuations of population structure in the Americas revealed by a meta-analysis of the first decade of archaeogenomes. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 180(4): 703–714. Google Scholar.

Santos, A.L.C. dos; H.S.L. Sullasi; S.F.S.M. da Silva. 2020. Estudos da diagênese óssea e experimento de datação direta dos sepultamentos do sítio arqueológico Pedra do Alexandre, RN. Clio Arqueológica 35(1): 143–189.

Santos, F.R. 2008. O povoamento das Américas através de estudos de ancestralidade paterna. Fumdhamentos 7: 191–203. Google Scholar.

Sauer, N.J. 1992. Forensic anthropology and the concept of race: If races don't exist, why are forensic anthropologists so good at identifying them? Social Science & Medicine 34(2): 107–111. Google Scholar.

Semino, O. et alii. 2000. The genetic Legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapiens sapiens in Extant Europeans: A Y Chromosome Perspective. Science 290(5494): 1155–1159. Google Scholar.

Shillito, L.M. 2013. Archaeology under the microscope. The Post Hole 30: 30–35. Google Scholar.

Shriver, M.D.; R.A. Kittles. 2004. Genetic ancestry and the search for personalized genetic histories. Nature Reviews Genetics 5: 611–618. Google Scholar.

Silva, S.F.S.M. da; N.C. Ghetti; C.R.B. Santos. 2016. Ensaio sobre preservação de materiais arqueológicos de natureza orgânica da RETEC-ARQ da UFPE: remanescentes ósseos humanos. In Anais do IV Seminário de Preservação de Patrimônio Arqueológico, pp. 402–432. Rio de Janeiro: Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins. Google Scholar.

Solari, A.; G. Martin; S.F.S.M. da Silva. 2016. A Presença Infantil no Registro Bioarqueológico no Sítio Pedra do Alexandre, Carnaúba dos Dantas, RN, Brasil. Fumdhamentos 13: 4–30.

Spaulding, A.C. 1953. Statistical Techniques for the Discovery of Artifact Types. American Antiquity 18(4): 305–313. Google Scholar.

Sullasi, H.S.L. et alii. 2017. A Note on Diagenetic Parameters for Bone Remains from Pedra do Alexandre Site without Sample Destruction. Fumdhamentos 19: 74–85. Google Scholar.

Sullasi, H.S.L.; A.L.C. dos Santos; S.F.S.M. da Silva. 2018. Bone diagenesis study of the burials from the Pedra do Alexandre archaeological site, Carnaúba dos Dantas, RN. Cadernos do Lepaarq 15(30): 162–178. Google Scholar.

Walker, M. 2005. Quaternary Dating Methods. John Wiley & Sons. Google Scholar.

Weiner, S. 2010. Microarchaeology: Beyond the Visible Archaeological Record. Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar.


Creative Commons License

© 2024 ARQUEOLOGIA IBEROAMERICANA. ISSN 1989-4104. CC BY 4.0 License.
Open Access Journal. Edited & Published by Pascual Izquierdo-Egea [P. I. Egea].
Graus & Pina de Ebro, Spain. W3C HTML 4.01 compatible. Contact