Angela
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Amazingly, it seems that it's taken two years for this paper to be published? Or is this a slightly different paper?
Our previous discussion:
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/32807-Upcoming-paper-on-Alemannic-dna?highlight=Alemannic
The present paper:
See:Niall O’Sullivan1,2,3,*,
Cosimo Posth2,4,
Valentina Coia1,
Verena J. Schuenemann4,5,†,
T. Douglas Price6,
Joachim Wahl7,8,
Ron Pinhasi3,9,
Albert Zink1,*,
Johannes Krause2,4,* and
Frank Maixner1
"Ancient genome-wide analyses infer kinship structure in an Early Medieval Alemannic graveyard"
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/9/eaao1262
I'm going to have to go over this carefully. From the "soon to be published" information, the "ethnic identification", if it is of the same samples, was: 5 Eastern European like samples, two German Austrian like samples, and 1 Southern European like sample.
I'll be interested to see if they were more egalitarian than Lombards or just more open to appropriating from other cultures.
"From historical and archeological records, it is posited that the European medieval household was a combination of close relatives and recruits. However, this kinship structure has not yet been directly tested at a genomic level on medieval burials. The early 7th century CE burial at Niederstotzingen, discovered in 1962, is the most complete and richest example of Alemannic funerary practice in Germany. Excavations found 13 individuals who were buried with an array of inscribed bridle gear, jewelry, armor, and swords. These artifacts support the view that the individuals had contact with France, northern Italy, and Byzantium. This study analyzed genome-wide sequences recovered from the remains, in tandem with analysis of the archeological context, to reconstruct kinship and the extent of outside contact. Eleven individuals had sufficient DNA preservation to genetically sex them as male and identify nine unique mitochondrial haplotypes and two distinct Y chromosome lineages. Genome-wide analyses were performed on eight individuals to estimate genetic affiliation to modern west Eurasians and genetic kinship at the burial. Five individuals were direct relatives. Three other individuals were not detectably related; two of these showed genomic affinity to southern Europeans. The genetic makeup of the individuals shares no observable pattern with their orientation in the burial or the cultural association of their grave goods, with the five related individuals buried with grave goods associated with three diverse cultural origins. These findings support the idea that not only were kinship and fellowship held in equal regard: Diverse cultural appropriation was practiced among closely related individuals as well."
Our previous discussion:
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/32807-Upcoming-paper-on-Alemannic-dna?highlight=Alemannic
The present paper:
See:Niall O’Sullivan1,2,3,*,
Cosimo Posth2,4,
Valentina Coia1,
Verena J. Schuenemann4,5,†,
T. Douglas Price6,
Joachim Wahl7,8,
Ron Pinhasi3,9,
Albert Zink1,*,
Johannes Krause2,4,* and
Frank Maixner1
"Ancient genome-wide analyses infer kinship structure in an Early Medieval Alemannic graveyard"
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/9/eaao1262
I'm going to have to go over this carefully. From the "soon to be published" information, the "ethnic identification", if it is of the same samples, was: 5 Eastern European like samples, two German Austrian like samples, and 1 Southern European like sample.
I'll be interested to see if they were more egalitarian than Lombards or just more open to appropriating from other cultures.
"From historical and archeological records, it is posited that the European medieval household was a combination of close relatives and recruits. However, this kinship structure has not yet been directly tested at a genomic level on medieval burials. The early 7th century CE burial at Niederstotzingen, discovered in 1962, is the most complete and richest example of Alemannic funerary practice in Germany. Excavations found 13 individuals who were buried with an array of inscribed bridle gear, jewelry, armor, and swords. These artifacts support the view that the individuals had contact with France, northern Italy, and Byzantium. This study analyzed genome-wide sequences recovered from the remains, in tandem with analysis of the archeological context, to reconstruct kinship and the extent of outside contact. Eleven individuals had sufficient DNA preservation to genetically sex them as male and identify nine unique mitochondrial haplotypes and two distinct Y chromosome lineages. Genome-wide analyses were performed on eight individuals to estimate genetic affiliation to modern west Eurasians and genetic kinship at the burial. Five individuals were direct relatives. Three other individuals were not detectably related; two of these showed genomic affinity to southern Europeans. The genetic makeup of the individuals shares no observable pattern with their orientation in the burial or the cultural association of their grave goods, with the five related individuals buried with grave goods associated with three diverse cultural origins. These findings support the idea that not only were kinship and fellowship held in equal regard: Diverse cultural appropriation was practiced among closely related individuals as well."
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