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Unveiling Bishop Teodomiro of Iria Flavia? An attempt to identify the discoverer of St James's tomb through osteological and biomolecular analyses (Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain)
The aDNA results confirm that NCS200 is male, resolving the historic osteological uncertainty and aligning with an identification as Teodomiro. From a historical perspective, several hypotheses are compatible with the genetic ancestry of NCS200 if the assumption is made that this individual is Teodomiro. During the High Middle Ages, Galician bishops were members of the social aristocracy, and in charge of interacting with the monarch (Portela Silva Reference Portela Silva2009). Teodomiro's genetic origin could come from demographic interactions that may have occurred between the Hispano-Roman and Visigothic elites, or even from mixing between Christian and Islamic elites after the conquest in the south/central regions of Iberia. It has been suggested that several of the individuals analysed in the necropolis of the Cathedral of Santiago and identified as non-local based on strontium and stable oxygen isotope analyses, may have come from the central and southern Iberian Peninsula (Pérez-Ramallo et al. Reference Pérez-Ramallo2022a). Historical documents mention individuals emigrating from north Africa and Al-Andalus to the north-west of the peninsula, such as Bishop Odoario, who restored the nearest see of Lugo in the eighth century AD and was originally from north Africa (Carriedo Tejedo Reference Carriedo Tejedo2022). Therefore, it is possible that Teodomiro's ancestry is connected to the emigration of Christians from Al-Andalus into the Kingdom of Asturias, highlighting the complexity of ancestry among the elites and clergy of the Christian kingdoms which blurs assumed social distinctions between Christians and Muslims.
These are the scaled G25 coordinates provided by Moriopoulos, if anyone is interested in doing some kind of comparison with them:
bishop_teodomiro:NCS200,0.091058,0.135065,0.029415,-0.000969,0.038469,0.001116,-0.00799,-0.001615,0.028429,0.028611,-0.001624,0.007643,-0.008325,-0.01913,0.003257,0.010077,0.014864,-0.003294,-0.004777,0.002126,0.00574,-0.005688,0.003451,0.005422,0.000599
With my not simulated coordinates
