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Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs.
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Joscha GretzingerDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. joscha_gretzinger@eva.mpg.de.ORCID 0009-0004-0022-6082
Felix Biermann *Institute of History, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-9616-0620
Hellen Mager *Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Benedict KingDepartment of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Denisa ZlámalováDepartment of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Luca TraversoDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5749-5751
Guido A Gnecchi RusconeDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6490-8101
Sanni PeltolaDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7216-8713
Elina SalmelaDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1326-4462
Gunnar U NeumannDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3825-8536
Rita RadzeviciuteDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Pavlína IngrováDepartment of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
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Iwona WronkaLaboratory of Anthropology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-8740-7991
Radomir JurićMatica Hrvatska Zadar, Zadar, Croatia.
Anna HyrchałaDoctoral School of Humanities and Art, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-8749-1583
Barbara Niezabitowska-WiśniewskaInstitute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-7557-4488
Bartłomiej BarteckiRev. Stanisław Staszic Museum, Hrubieszów, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-2234-4798
Beata BorowskaDepartment of Anthropology, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-6449-6955
Tomasz DzieńkowskiInstitute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-3899-3170
Marcin WołoszynLeibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig, Germany.
Michał WojenkaInstitute of Archeology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Jarosław WilczyńskiInstitute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-9786-0693
Małgorzata KotFaculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-5277-0283
Eric MüllerState Archaeology Department of Schleswig-Holstein, Schleswig, Germany.
Jörg OrschiedtState Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3629-8251
Gunita ZariņaInstitute of Latvian History, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
Päivi OnkamoDepartment of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Falko DaimDepartment for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Arnold MuhlState Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany.
Ralf SchwarzState Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany.
Marek MajerDepartment of Slavic Philology, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-0885-5789
Michael McCormickMax Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard, Department of History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7964-9387
Jan KvětinaInstitute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-2624-325X
Tivadar VidaInstitute of Archaeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-0588-1906
Patrick J GearyInstitute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3971-2588
Jiří MacháčekDepartment of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-8693-4423
Mario ŠlausCroatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-4941-2212
Harald MellerState Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7590-0375
Walter PohlInstitute for Austrian Historical Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. walter.pohl@oeaw.ac.at.ORCID 0000-0002-6885-2248
Zuzana HofmanováDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. hofmanova@mail.muni.cz.ORCID 0000-0003-1336-4455
Johannes KrauseDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. krause@eva.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0001-9144-3920
Funding
European Research CouncilFinnish Cultural FoundationMax Planck Society
Abstract
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
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