From which of the following sites was the female skeleton I6113 recovered, whose DNA sequencing…
The correct choice is: “Rakhigarhi” The first genome of an Indus Valley (Harappan) individual was sequenced from the skeleton of a woman excavated at Rakhigarhi in Haryana…
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From which of the following sites was the female skeleton I6113 recovered, whose DNA sequencing (reported in 2019) revealed that the people of the Indus Valley Civilization have an independent origin?
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The correct choice is: “Rakhigarhi”
The first genome of an Indus Valley (Harappan) individual was sequenced from the skeleton of a woman excavated at Rakhigarhi in Haryana (the sample is usually labelled I6113). The study, published in the journal Cell in September 2019, found no ancestry from the Steppe pastoralists or from Anatolian/Iranian farmers, suggesting that the Harappans had an independent, largely local origin and that farming in South Asia arose from local hunter-gatherers.
Ganveriwala, Mohenjo-Daro and Dholavira are other Harappan sites, but the ancient DNA study was based on the Rakhigarhi burial.
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