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Abstract

According to the written historical sources, the Gepids were a Germanic tribe that settled in the Carpathian Basin during the Migration Period. They were allies of the Huns, and an independent Gepid Kingdom arose after the collapse of the Hun Empire. In this period, the Carpathian Basin was characterized by so-called row-grave cemeteries. Due to the scarcity of historical and archaeological data, we have a poor knowledge of the origin and composition of these barbarian populations, and this is still a subject of debate. To better understand the genetic legacy of migration period societies, we obtained 46 full mitogenome sequences from three Gepid cemeteries located in Transylvania, Romania. The studied samples represent the Classical Gepidic period and illustrate the genetic make-up of this group from the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD, which is characterized by cultural markers associated with the Gepid culture in Transylvania. The genetic structure of the Gepid people is explored for the first time, providing new insights into the genetic makeup of this archaic group. The retrieved genetic data showed mainly the presence of Northwestern European mitochondrial ancient lineages in the Gepid group and all population genetic analyses reiterated the same genetic structure, showing that early ancient mitogenomes from Europe were the major contributors to the Gepid maternal genetic pool.

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Title
Maternal Lineages of Gepids from Transylvania
Author
Gînguță, Alexandra 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kovács, Bence 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Tihanyi, Balázs 3 ; Maár, Kitti 4 ; Schütz, Oszkár 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Maróti, Zoltán 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Varga, Gergely I B 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kiss, Attila P 7 ; Stanciu, Ioan 8 ; Török, Tibor 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Neparáczki, Endre 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; [email protected]; Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; [email protected] (B.K.); [email protected] (K.M.); [email protected] (O.S.); [email protected] (E.N.) 
 Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; [email protected] (B.K.); [email protected] (K.M.); [email protected] (O.S.); [email protected] (E.N.); Department of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Hungarian Research, H-1014 Budapest, Hungary; [email protected] (B.T.); [email protected] (Z.M.); [email protected] (G.I.B.V.) 
 Department of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Hungarian Research, H-1014 Budapest, Hungary; [email protected] (B.T.); [email protected] (Z.M.); [email protected] (G.I.B.V.); Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary 
 Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; [email protected] (B.K.); [email protected] (K.M.); [email protected] (O.S.); [email protected] (E.N.) 
 Department of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Hungarian Research, H-1014 Budapest, Hungary; [email protected] (B.T.); [email protected] (Z.M.); [email protected] (G.I.B.V.); Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Health Center, University of Szeged, H-6725 Szeged, Hungary 
 Department of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Hungarian Research, H-1014 Budapest, Hungary; [email protected] (B.T.); [email protected] (Z.M.); [email protected] (G.I.B.V.) 
 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary; [email protected] 
 Institute of Archaeology and Art History, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; [email protected] 
First page
563
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20734425
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2652997036
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.