#Avars

Genetic Study Reveals Cultural Integration in Avar Communities in the Early Middle Ages https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/genetic-study-avar-communities/ #Avars #History #Austria

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interdisciplinary research

"We found that even 200 years after immigration, the ancestry at one site (Leobersdorf) remained dominantly East Asian-like, whereas the other site (Mödling) shows local, European-like ancestry. These two nearby sites show little biological relatedness, despite sharing a distinctive late-Avar culture."

This DNA analysis meets #archeology article about the #Avars around Vienna has some amazing findings + it is so well written.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08418-5

"The #wholecemeteryDNA approach made it possible to reconstruct entire family trees. The 9-generation tree stretched from a founding male buried not long after the #Avars first arrived to a descendant 250 yrs later. The approach “made these people really come to life… how people organized their communities—something we never would seen through written sources or #archaeology alone.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/massive-dna-study-reveals-mating-customs-mysterious-medieval-horse-riders

DNA from ancient graves reveals the culture of a mysterious nomadic people
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01165-7 #human #migration #DNA #avars #Huns #hungary #LevirateUnions

"We present a set of large pedigrees, reconstructed using ancient DNA, spanning nine generations and comprising around 300 individuals. We uncover a strict patrilineal kinship system, in which patrilocality and female exogamy were the norm and multiple reproductive partnering and levirate unions were common. The absence of consanguinity indicates that this society maintained a detailed memory of ancestry over generations."

Gnecchi-Ruscone, G.A., Rácz, Z., Samu, L. et al. Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07312-4

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #DNA #Genetics #Science #Avars #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @histodon @histodons

Samo (reigned 623/624-658 CE) was a king of the Slavs who was responsible for the foundation of the first recorded political entity of the Slavic people, usually referred to as Samo's Empire. https://www.worldhistory.org/Samo/ #History #Avars #Franks #Samo

Savelyev, A., & Jeong, C. (2020). Early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, E20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.18 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #Xiongnu #Rourans #Huns #Avars #History #Steppe #Histodon #Histodons #Science #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Antiquity @science @histodons @linguistics @archaeodons @antiquidons

The Avars were a confederation of heterogeneous (diverse or varied) people consisting of Rouran, Hephthalites, and Turkic-Oghuric races who migrated to the region of the Pontic Grass Steppe (an area corresponding to modern-day Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan) from Central Asia after the fall of the Asiatic Rouran Empire in 552 CE. https://www.worldhistory.org/Avars/ #History #Alboin #AttilatheHun #Avars

Samo (reigned 623/624-658 CE) was a king of the Slavs who was responsible for the foundation of the first recorded political entity of the Slavic people, usually referred to as Samo's Empire. Since writing was not introduced into Slavic culture until the 9th and 10th centuries CE, there are no contemporary accounts on Samo written by the Slavs. The primary source on Samo is a Frankish document ...https://www.worldhistory.org/Samo/ #Avars #Franks #Samo

Un imperio cristiano hace desaparecer a un pueblo europeo http://loquesomos.org/un-imperio-cristiano-hace-desaparecer-a-un-pueblo-europeo/ #Avars #History #Historia