Marieke van de Loosdrecht,1 Abdeljalil Bouzouggar,2,3*† Louise Humphrey,4 Cosimo Posth,1 Nick Barton,5 Ayinuer Aximu-Petri,3 Birgit Nickel,3 Sarah Nagel,3 El Hassan Talbi,6 Mohammed Abdeljalil El Hajraoui,2 Saaïd Amzazi,7 Jean-Jacques Hublin,3 Svante Pääbo,3 Stephan Schiffels,1 Matthias Meyer,3 Wolfgang Haak,1† Choongwon Jeong,1*† Johannes Krause1*†
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745, Germany. 2Origin and evolution of Homo sapiens in Morocco Research Group, Institut National des Sciences de l’Archeologie et du Patrimoine, Hay Riad, Madinat Al Irfane, Angle rues 5 et 7, Rabat-Instituts, 10 000 Rabat, Morocco. 3Department of Human Evolution, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103, Germany. 4Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK. 5Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG, UK. 6Faculte des Sciences, Campus d’Al Qods, Universite Mohammed Premier, B.P. 717 Oujda, Morocco. 7Mohammed V University, Avenue Ibn Batouta, Rabat, Morocco.
*Corresponding author : Choongwon Jeong, Johannes Krause, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar
†These authors contributed equally to this work