Archaeogenetics channel

🇵🇱🇸🇰yDNA haplogroups of the Przeworsk culture, a diverse Iron Age culture that harboured both Germanic and Celtic peoples. It is most known for being the origin of the Germanic Vandals. Many of the Przeworsk culture individuals show a significant North European contribution autosomally, while some h…

🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇪Origins of the common yDNA haplogroups in the Nordic Bronze Age. 🇩🇪🇳🇴🇸🇪🇩🇰

Map of settlements associated with the Globular Amphora culture. From 'Separation, hybridisation, and networks Globular Amphora sedentary pastoralists ca. 3200-2700 BCE' by Johannes Müller

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🏹 The distribution of Bell Beaker ancestry during the Iron Age. 🏹

🐺The distribution of Corded Ware ancestry in Europe during the Iron Age. WSH ancestry in early speakers of Germanic and Balto-Slavic languages was predominantly derived from the Corded Ware culture. 🐺 From https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.28.640770v1

New preprint titled 'Ancient DNA indicates 3,000 years of genetic continuity in the Northern Iranian Plateau, from the Copper Age to the Sassanid Empire' reports on 13 newly sequenced nuclear genomes. The study prioritizes samples from northern Iran, focusing on the Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassan…

A map made back in 2023 showing the frequency of haplogroup I1 based on the FTDNA Haplotree which is currently the largest yDNA database in the world. I have made similar maps for 5 other major European haplogroups which I plan on posting soon.

Rough chronology of the beginning of the Bronze Age in various European regions

Figure from a presentation about an upcoming paper on the genetic origin of the Slavs. The figure displays the Slavic expansions based on new aDNA samples from the same paper as well as the admixture events that separated Slavs from Balts.

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿British archaeologist and paleolinguist Professor Lord Colin Renfrew passed away three days ago, at the age of 87. He developed the Anatolian hypothesis for IE languages, which he later dismissed on the basis of ancient DNA. Despite his age, Renfrew was a firm believer in younger scientif…

🇱🇻🇱🇻The skull of a man belonging to the hunter-fisher Kunda culture in Mesolithic Latvia. Baltic HGs apparently had a religious use for the amber in their region and associated it with the passage to the afterlife. Baltic amber would play an important role in later European prehistory and in histori…

Phylogenetic structure of haplogroup I, made by population geneticist Razib Khan to showcase a classic example of an old haplogroup with diverse branches (I2) and one that is the result of a recent and quick expansion and therefore has a star-shaped cluster (I1). Haplogroup I2 has a very old histor…

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