Data availability
Genotype data for newly reported individuals included in main analyses from this study can be obtained from the Harvard Dataverse repository (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UQVPJQ). The aligned sequences for all individuals are available through the European Nucleotide Archive (PRJEB97713). Previously published data used in our analyses are available as follows: genetic data for modern individuals from Native American groups2 are available for non-profit research on population history under an interinstitutional data ac…
Data availability
Genotype data for newly reported individuals included in main analyses from this study can be obtained from the Harvard Dataverse repository (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UQVPJQ). The aligned sequences for all individuals are available through the European Nucleotide Archive (PRJEB97713). Previously published data used in our analyses are available as follows: genetic data for modern individuals from Native American groups2 are available for non-profit research on population history under an interinstitutional data access agreement with the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia (queries regarding data access should be sent to a.ruizlin@ucl.ac.uk); genetic data for previously published ancient individuals are available at the Allen Ancient DNA Resource (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FFIDCW); 1000 Genomes haplotype reference panel (http://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/release/20130502/), human reference genome hg19 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genome/GCF_000001405.13/); data used for map plotting are available at Natural Earth (https://www.naturalearthdata.com), GADM (https://gadm.org) and Portal de Información Hídrica de Córdoba-APRHI (https://portal-aprhi.opendata.arcgis.com/). Other newly reported data, such as radiocarbon dates and archaeological context information, are included in this Article and its Supplementary Information.
Code availability
Custom scripts and accompanying materials for the appropriate results sections are available at GitHub (https://github.com/javiermaravall/aDNA_CSC/).
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