Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs

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GRETZINGER Joscha BIERMANN Felix MAGER Hellen KING Benedict ZLÁMALOVÁ Denisa TRAVERSO Luca GNECCHI RUSCONE Guido A. PELTOLA Sanni SALMELA Elina NEUMANN Gunnar U. RADZEVICIUTE Rita INGROVÁ Pavlína LIWOCH Radoslaw WRONKA Iwona JURIC Radomir HYRCHALA Anna NIEZABITOWSKA-WISNIEWSKA Barbara BARTECKI Bartlomiej BOROWSKA Beata DZIENKOWSKI Tomasz WOLOSZYN Marcin WOJENKA Michal WILCZYNSKI Jaroslaw KOT Malgorzata MUELLER Eric ORSCHIEDT Jorg ZARINA Gunita ONKAMO Paivi DAIM Falko MUHL Arnold SCHWARZ Ralf MAJER Marek MCCORMICK Michael KVETINA Jan VIDA Tivadar GEARY Patrick J. MACHÁČEK Jiří SLAUS Mario MELLER Harald POHL Walter HOFMANOVÁ Zuzana KRAUSE Johannes

Rok publikování 2025
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj NATURE
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Filozofická fakulta

Citace
www https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09437-6#citeas
Doi https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09437-6
Klíčová slova aDNA; Slavs; migration; archaeogenetics
Popis The second half of the first millennium ce in Central and Eastern Europe was accompanied by fundamental cultural and political transformations. This period of change is commonly associated with the appearance of the Slavs, which is supported by textual evidence1,2 and coincides with the emergence of similar archaeological horizons3, 4, 5-6. However, so far there has been no consensus on whether this archaeological horizon spread by migration, Slavicisation or a combination of both. Genetic data remain sparse, especially owing to the widespread practice of cremation in the early phase of the Slavic settlement. Here we present genome-wide data from 555 ancient individuals, including 359 samples from Slavic contexts from as early as the seventh century ce. Our data demonstrate large-scale population movement from Eastern Europe during the sixth to eighth centuries, replacing more than 80% of the local gene pool in Eastern Germany, Poland and Croatia. Yet, we also show substantial regional heterogeneity as well as a lack of sex-biased admixture, indicating varying degrees of cultural assimilation of the autochthonous populations. Comparing archaeological and genetic evidence, we find that the change in ancestry in Eastern Germany coincided with a change in social organization, characterized by an intensification of inter- and intra-site genetic relatedness and patrilocality. On the European scale, it appears plausible that the changes in material culture and language between the sixth and eighth centuries were connected to these large-scale population movements.
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