Back to Search Start Over

Patrilocality and hunter-gatherer-related ancestry of populations in East-Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age

Authors :
Chyleński, Maciej
Makarowicz, Przemyslaw
Juras, Anna
Krzewińska, Maja
Pospieszny, Łukasz
Ehler, Edvard
Breszka, Agnieszka
Górski, Jacek
Taras, Halina
Szczepanek, Anita
Polańska, Marta
Włodarczak, Piotr
Lasota-Kuś, Anna
Wójcik, Irena
Romaniszyn, Jan
Szmyt, Marzena
Kośko, Aleksander
Ignaczak, Marcin
Sadowski, Sylwester
Matoga, Andrzej
Grossman, Anna
Ilchyshyn, Vasyl
Yahodinska, Maryna O.
Romańska, Adriana
Tunia, Krzysztof
Przybyła, Marcin
Grygiel, Ryszard
Szostek, Krzysztof
Dabert, Miroslawa
Götherström, Anders
Jakobsson, Mattias
Malmström, Helena
Chyleński, Maciej
Makarowicz, Przemyslaw
Juras, Anna
Krzewińska, Maja
Pospieszny, Łukasz
Ehler, Edvard
Breszka, Agnieszka
Górski, Jacek
Taras, Halina
Szczepanek, Anita
Polańska, Marta
Włodarczak, Piotr
Lasota-Kuś, Anna
Wójcik, Irena
Romaniszyn, Jan
Szmyt, Marzena
Kośko, Aleksander
Ignaczak, Marcin
Sadowski, Sylwester
Matoga, Andrzej
Grossman, Anna
Ilchyshyn, Vasyl
Yahodinska, Maryna O.
Romańska, Adriana
Tunia, Krzysztof
Przybyła, Marcin
Grygiel, Ryszard
Szostek, Krzysztof
Dabert, Miroslawa
Götherström, Anders
Jakobsson, Mattias
Malmström, Helena
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

The demographic history of East-Central Europe after the Neolithic period remains poorly explored, despite this region being on the confluence of various ecological zones and cultural entities. Here, the descendants of societies associated with steppe pastoralists form Early Bronze Age were followed by Middle Bronze Age populations displaying unique characteristics. Particularly, the predominance of collective burials, the scale of which, was previously seen only in the Neolithic. The extent to which this re-emergence of older traditions is a result of genetic shift or social changes in the MBA is a subject of debate. Here by analysing 91 newly generated genomes from Bronze Age individuals from present Poland and Ukraine, we discovered that Middle Bronze Age populations were formed by an additional admixture event involving a population with relatively high proportions of genetic component associated with European hunter-gatherers and that their social structure was based on, primarily patrilocal, multigenerational kin-groups.

Details

Database :
OAIster
Notes :
English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1400006111
Document Type :
Electronic Resource
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038.s41467-023-40072-9