Human Mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd Millennium BC: Integration of Isotopic and Genomic Evidence

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PLOS ONE, vol. 16, no. 6, e0241883

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• causal hypothesis Migration and Warfare-Dominated Collapse
  contradicts · challenges model

  Provides evidence or reasoning against Migration and Warfare-Dominated Collapse.

• date assertion Predominantly Local Population with Selective Mobility at Tell Atchana — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · establishes · results
• claim Most sampled individuals were biologically and isotopically consistent with local origins despite the city’s international textual connections.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · establishes

  Supports the claim: Most sampled individuals were biologically and isotopically consistent with local origins despite the city’s international textual connections.

• event Predominantly Local Population with Selective Mobility at Tell Atchana
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · establishes · results

  Source relationship recorded for Predominantly Local Population with Selective Mobility at Tell Atchana.

• claim Predominantly Local Population with Selective Mobility at Tell Atchana is best dated in this release to 2nd millennium BCE sample sequence.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports

  Supports the claim: Predominantly Local Population with Selective Mobility at Tell Atchana is best dated in this release to 2nd millennium BCE sample sequence.

• claim Tell Atchana demonstrates that an internationally connected Bronze Age capital could contain a predominantly local sampled population, so textual cosmopolitanism cannot be equat…
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports

  Supports the claim: Tell Atchana demonstrates that an internationally connected Bronze Age capital could contain a predominantly local sampled population, so textual cosmopolitanism cannot be equated automatically with mass migration.

• property assignment Predominantly Local Population with Selective Mobility at Tell Atchana — has property — Migration or Mobility Evidence
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  Isotope and genome results identify selective mobility within a largely local sampled population.

• property assignment Tell Atchana Isotope and Ancient-DNA Dataset — has property — Migration or Mobility Evidence
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  Isotopic and genomic data test individual mobility and population composition at Tell Atchana.

• property assignment Tell Atchana Isotope and Ancient-DNA Dataset — has property — Archaeogenetic Evidence
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  Ancient DNA forms one component of the integrated mobility analysis.

• entity Tell Atchana (Alalakh)
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Tell Atchana (Alalakh).

• entity Tell Atchana Isotope and Ancient-DNA Dataset
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Tell Atchana Isotope and Ancient-DNA Dataset.

• property Population Replacement Not Established
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Population Replacement Not Established.

• property Archaeogenetic Evidence
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Archaeogenetic Evidence.

• property Migration or Mobility Evidence
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Migration or Mobility Evidence.

• relationship Predominantly Local Population with Selective Mobility at Tell Atchana — occurred in — Tell Atchana (Alalakh)
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Predominantly Local Population with Selective Mobility at Tell Atchana is geographically assigned to Tell Atchana (Alalakh).

• relationship Tell Atchana Isotope and Ancient-DNA Dataset — participated in — Predominantly Local Population with Selective Mobility at Tell Atchana
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Tell Atchana Isotope and Ancient-DNA Dataset is a participant, evidential object, or directly involved entity in Predominantly Local Population with Selective Mobility at Tell Atchana.

• relationship Tell Atchana Isotope and Ancient-DNA Dataset — provides evidence for — Predominantly Local Population with Selective Mobility at Tell Atchana
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  The integrated isotope and genome dataset supports a mainly local sampled population with selective mobility.

• relationship Tell Atchana (Alalakh) — located in — Northern Levant
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Tell Atchana (Alalakh) is located in or geographically associated with Northern Levant.

• relationship Tell Atchana Isotope and Ancient-DNA Dataset — located in — Northern Levant
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Tell Atchana Isotope and Ancient-DNA Dataset is located in or geographically associated with Northern Levant.