TRAVERSO, Luca, Guido Alberto GNECCHI-RUSCONE, Alina Naomi HISS, Alexander HERBIG, Zuzana HOFMANOVÁ and Johannes KRAUSE. The origin and genetic history of the Avars. In Meller, Harald; Daim, Falko. Grenzüberschreitungen – Reiternomaden in Mitteleuropa, ihre östlichen Wurzeln und Verbindungen = Crossing boundaries – Mounted nomads in Central Europe, their eastern roots and connections. Halle (Saale): Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte., 2022, p. 120-132. Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 25. ISBN 978-3-948618-44-5.
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Original name The origin and genetic history of the Avars
Authors TRAVERSO, Luca (380 Italy), Guido Alberto GNECCHI-RUSCONE (380 Italy), Alina Naomi HISS (276 Germany), Alexander HERBIG (276 Germany), Zuzana HOFMANOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Johannes KRAUSE (276 Germany).
Edition Halle (Saale), Grenzüberschreitungen – Reiternomaden in Mitteleuropa, ihre östlichen Wurzeln und Verbindungen = Crossing boundaries – Mounted nomads in Central Europe, their eastern roots and connections, p. 120-132, 13 pp. Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 25, 2022.
Publisher Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60102 Archaeology
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129350
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISBN 978-3-948618-44-5
Keywords in English nomads; Avars; archaeology; archaeogenetics; interdisciplinarity
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Abstract
Archaeological finds and limited historical evidence suggest that multiple ethnic groups inhabited the central European Carpathian Basin during late Antiquity and the early medie- val period. The origins and impact on later populations of many of these groups remain largely unknown. Some of them are thought to have had central- or east-Asian origins and to have migrated to Europe from the Eurasian steppe, among them the Huns and the Avars. The latter occupied the region for over 200 years, establishing the Avar Khaganate (king- dom) around 568. Some historical sources connect the Avars with the east-Asian Rouran Khaganate, which dominated the eastern Mongolian steppe from the 4th–6th centuries. Others, however, suggest that the Avars were merely a loose federa- tion of individuals of eastern European and central Asian descent. In this study we present genome-wide data obtained from the remains of 66 individuals from the Carpathian Basin during this period, including the occupants of some of the richest burials in the khaganate and other elite Avar graves from its core region. We found that the genetic material from the majority of elite individuals differentiated them from the 5th and 6th century local population that preceded the Avars. Almost all the elite individuals carried a high proportion of east-Asian ancestry, for which the best matches are found in the limited available genomic data from Rouran Culture and related individuals previously published. Some individuals carried a small amount of more recent central-Asian and eastern-European ancestry. The majority of the elite individu- als, however, lacked local genetic ancestry, suggesting limited genetic admixture with the local population. Overall, the results indicated that the early medieval Avars were of recent east-Asian origin that dates to the mid-1st milenium and had migrated rapidly across Eurasia within a few generations.
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GX21-17092X, research and development projectName: Vznik multietnické komplexní společnosti na raně středověké Moravě. Teorie kolektivního jednání a interdisciplinární přístup (Acronym: Formation)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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