Tautalus
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Abstract
a) A portion of the Y-hg R/R1b phylogenetic tree with annotations indicating Y-R/R1b lineages determined for seven skeletal remains buried in Płock and Warsaw (R/R1b lineages are shown in black/red and Piast identification numbers are shown in blue). The lineages resulting from the analysis of the consensus Y-chromosome haplogroup are shown in green. One could postulate that not R1b-BY3549 but R1b-FTE72227 is the most recent lineage; however, this claim is not fully supported by the collected data (Supplementary Data 4b and Supplementary Note 5).
b) Presents a heatmap showing the frequency of the Y-hg R1b-P312 lineage across modern Europe.
The Piasts were one of the royal dynasties that shaped the political structure of medieval Europe in the 10th century CE. Despite their importance, as the founders and rulers of the early Polish kingdom, little is known about Piast origin, the conditions of Poland’s transformation into a medieval monarchy, and generally about the mechanisms of political entity formation in 10th-century East-Central Europe. Here we present an interdisciplinary investigation of Piast necropolises scattered throughout Poland. Within eight sites, we find 33 sets of skeletal remains likely to belong to the Piasts. Archaeogenomic analyses confirm the identities of ten as Piasts. Based on genomic data obtained for them, we determine the mitochondrial haplogroups of more than 200 historical figures from 10 European royal dynasties. The Y haplogroup lineage identified in the Piasts (R1b-BY3549) is currently rare. The same Y haplogroup lineage in databases of ancient DNA is found in three individuals who lived in North-Western Europe (present-day France, the Netherlands, and England). Together, these findings may suggest that the Piasts were of non-local origin and support the hypothesis that the state-building processes occurring in the 9th-11th centuries in East-Central Europe were induced not only by local elites but also by foreigners.
Genetic genealogy of the Piast dynasty and related European royal families - Nature Communications
House of Piast was one of the royal dynasties that shaped the political structure of medieval Europe in the 10th century CE. Here, the authors use ancient DNA analysis to build the genetic genealogy tree of this royal family.www.nature.com
a) A portion of the Y-hg R/R1b phylogenetic tree with annotations indicating Y-R/R1b lineages determined for seven skeletal remains buried in Płock and Warsaw (R/R1b lineages are shown in black/red and Piast identification numbers are shown in blue). The lineages resulting from the analysis of the consensus Y-chromosome haplogroup are shown in green. One could postulate that not R1b-BY3549 but R1b-FTE72227 is the most recent lineage; however, this claim is not fully supported by the collected data (Supplementary Data 4b and Supplementary Note 5).
b) Presents a heatmap showing the frequency of the Y-hg R1b-P312 lineage across modern Europe.
