A child born to immigrant parents at Lepenski Vir

Brami, Maxime (author), Blöcher, Jens (author), Diekmann, Yoan (author)

Our 2022 article challenged the traditional view of Lepenski Vir as a Mesolithic village that became Neolithic. Instead, genetic analysis suggests it was founded by Aegean farmers who occasionally admixed with local hunter-gatherers but maintained separate burials. New genomes released by Žegarac et al. (2025), including that of an infant boy with fully Aegean ancestry during the final phase of occupation, support the presence of entire immigrant families at the site. The discovery of neonates of mixed ancestry beneath house floors highlights complex interactions during the transitional phase. Additional kinship and identity-by-descent analyses offer deeper insight into early farmer-forager admixture processes.

• Language: English
• Keywords: farmer-forager interactions, Lepenski Vir, Iron Gates, ancient DNA, IBD sharing patterns
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 6-19
• Numbering: Vol. 52
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-180366
• ISSN on article: 1854-2492
• DOI: 10.4312/dp.52.15

Copyright

Podatek o licenci CC BY-SA 4.0 je naveden na pristajalni strani članka (glej zgoraj izvorni URL). (Datum opombe: 6. 3. 2026)

• Publication date in RUL: 06.03.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Documenta Praehistorica
• Shortened title: Doc. Praehistor.
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 1854-2492
• COBISS.SI-ID: 220673792

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Otrok, rojen priseljenim staršem na Lepenskem Viru

Abstract

V članku iz leta 2022 smo izzvali tradicionalni pogled na Lepenski Vir kot mezolitsko naselje, ki naj bi postopoma prešlo v neolitsko. Genetske analize kažejo, da so naselje ustanovili kmetje z območja Egejskega morja, ki so se občasno mešali z lokalnimi lovci-nabiralci, pri tem pa ohranjali ločena grobišča. Novi genomski podatki, ki so jih leta 2025 objavili Žegarac in sodelavci, vključno z genomom dečka egejskega porekla iz zadnje faze poselitve, potrjujejo prisotnost celotnih priseljenih družin. Odkritje novorojenčkov mešanega porekla pod tlemi hiš poudarja kompleksnost interakcij v prehodnem obdobju. Dodatne analize sorodstvenih povezav, identitete in genetskega porekla ponujajo podrobnejši vpogled v zgodnje procese mešanja med prvimi kmetovalci in lovci-nabiralci.

• Keywords: interakcije kmetovalcev in lovcev-nabiralcev, Lepenski Vir, železna vrata, stara DNK, genetski vzorci sorodnosti po poreklu (IBD)

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 793893
• Name: Population Dynamics in the Southeast European Neolithic: Prehistoric Archaeology and Palaeogenomics
• Acronym: ODYSSEA