Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization and migration through paleogenomics

  • Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim,
  • Stefania Vai,
  • Cosimo Posth,
  • Alessandra Modi,
  • István Koncz,
  • Susanne Hakenbeck,
  • Maria Cristina La Rocca,
  • Balazs Mende,
  • Dean Bobo,
  • Walter Pohl,
  • Luisella Pejrani Baricco,
  • Elena Bedini,
  • Paolo Francalacci,
  • Caterina Giostra,
  • Tivadar Vida,
  • Daniel Winger,
  • Uta von Freeden,
  • Silvia Ghirotto,
  • Martina Lari,
  • Guido Barbujani,
  • Johannes Krause,
  • David Caramelli,
  • Patrick J. Geary,
  • Krishna R. Veeramah

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06024-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The Longobards invaded and conquered much of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Here, the authors sequence and analyze ancient genomic DNA from 63 samples from two cemeteries associated with the Longobards and identify kinship networks and two distinct genetic and cultural groups in each.