Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985963%3A_____%2F25%3A00640158" target="_blank" >RIV/67985963:_____/25:00640158 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14210/25:00142022 RIV/00216208:11320/26:62QTHTTC
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09437-6" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09437-6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09437-6" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-025-09437-6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs
Original language description
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 evidence and coincides with the emergence of similar archaeological horizons. 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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature
ISSN
0028-0836
e-ISSN
1476-4687
Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
646
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
384-393
UT code for WoS article
001562550000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105015175342