Zalloua, Pierre A.Collins, Catherine J.Gosling, AnnaBiagini, Simone Andrea, 1983-Costa, BenjamíKardailsky, OlgaNigro, LorenzoKhalil, WissamCalafell i Majó, FrancescMatisoo Smith, Elizabeth2019-04-042019-04-042018Zalloua P, Collins CJ, Gosling A, Biagini SA, Costa B, Kardailsky O et al. Ancient DNA of Phoenician remains indicates discontinuity in the settlement history of Ibiza. Sci Rep. 2018;8(1):17567. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35667-y2045-2322http://hdl.handle.net/10230/37040Ibiza was permanently settled around the 7th century BCE by founders arriving from west Phoenicia. The founding population grew significantly and reached its height during the 4th century BCE. We obtained nine complete mitochondrial genomes from skeletal remains from two Punic necropoli in Ibiza and a Bronze Age site from Formentara. We also obtained low coverage (0.47X average depth) of the genome of one individual, directly dated to 361-178 cal BCE, from the Cas Molí site on Ibiza. We analysed and compared ancient DNA results with 18 new mitochondrial genomes from modern Ibizans to determine the ancestry of the founders of Ibiza. The mitochondrial results indicate a predominantly recent European maternal ancestry for the current Ibizan population while the whole genome data suggest a significant Eastern Mediterranean component. Our mitochondrial results suggest a genetic discontinuity between the early Phoenician settlers and the island's modern inhabitants. Our data, while limited, suggest that the Eastern or North African influence in the Punic population of Ibiza was primarily male dominated.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2018. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35667-yComputational biology and bioinformaticsEvolutionGeneticsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess