A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations

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Title: A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations
Authors: Olalde, Iñigo
Carrión, Pablo
Mikić, Ilija
Grbić, Miodrag
Lalueza-Fox, Carles
Contributors: Consorci del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
Issue Date: 7-Dec-2023
Keywords: Phylogeny
Human genetics
Human evolution
Roman Empire, 284-476
Migrations of nations
Spatial coverage: Balkan Peninsula
Citation: Olalde et al., 2023, Cell 186, 5472–5485 December 7, 2023 ª 2023 Elsevier Inc.
Publisher: Elsevier
Extent: 25 p.
Abstract: The rise and fall of the Roman Empire was a socio-political process with enormous ramifications for human history. The Middle Danube was a crucial frontier and a crossroads for population and cultural movement. Here, we present genome-wide data from 136 Balkan individuals dated to the 1st millennium CE. Despite extensive militarization and cultural influence, we find little ancestry contribution from peoples of Italic descent. However, we trace a large-scale influx of people of Anatolian ancestry during the Imperial period. Between 250 and 550 CE, we detect migrants with ancestry from Central/Northern Europe and the Steppe, confirming that ‘‘barbarian’’ migrations were propelled by ethnically diverse confederations. Following the end of Roman control, we detect the large-scale arrival of individuals who were genetically similar to modern Eastern European Slavic-speaking populations, who contributed 30%–60%of the ancestry of Balkan people, representing one of the largest permanent demographic changes anywhere in Europe during the Migration Period.
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