About the Authors

Lars Fehren-Schmitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Bastien Llamas, Susanne Lindauer, Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao

lfehrens@ucsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Historical Anthropology and Human Ecology, University Goettingen, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Bastien Llamas

Contributed equally to this work with: Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Bastien Llamas, Susanne Lindauer, Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Susanne Lindauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Bastien Llamas, Susanne Lindauer, Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao

Affiliation Curt-Engelhorn-Center for Archaeometry, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao

Contributed equally to this work with: Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Bastien Llamas, Susanne Lindauer, Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao

Affiliation Departamento de Humanidades, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú

Susan Kuzminsky

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo, Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile, Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Nadin Rohland

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Fabrício R. Santos

Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Peter Kaulicke

Affiliation Departamento de Humanidades, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú

Guido Valverde

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Stephen M. Richards

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Susanne Nordenfelt

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Verena Seidenberg

Affiliation Historical Anthropology and Human Ecology, University Goettingen, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Swapan Mallick

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alan Cooper

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

David Reich

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wolfgang Haak

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LFS BL SL ETC WH. Performed the experiments: LFS BL SL ETC SK VS NR GV SMR WH SN GV. Analyzed the data: LFS BL SL ETC SK WH SM DR FRS PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LFS BL SL ETC SK WH NR SM SN DR VS DR AC. Wrote the paper: LFS BL WH SL ETC SK AC DR NR.