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Goths and genetics P02019 I. StolarekI, L. HandschuhI, A. JurasII, M. MarcinkowskaSwojakI, M. ZenczakI, J. PiontekII, P. KozlowskiI, M. FiglerowiczI IDepartment of Molecular and Systems Biology, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland, IIDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland For years, the issues related to the origin of the Goths and their early migrations in the Iron Age have been a matter of hot debate among archaeologists. Unfortunately, the lack of new independent data has precluded the evaluation of the existing hypothesis. This report is a continuation of our previous works and concentrates on the human population that lived between the Vistula and Bug Rivers (contemporary eastern Poland) in the Iron Age. The genetic makeup of individuals living at that time in this region has not yet been determined. The biological material was collected from one of the richest Iron Age cemeteries located in east Poland near Maslomecz village. The cemetery is attributed to the Wielbark culture. Our analysis involved 27 individuals. We assigned mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups and determined complete mtDNA genome sequences for all of them. The studied group showed close matrilineal relationship with two other Iron Age populations living, respectively, at the Jutland peninsula and between the Oder and Vistula Rivers. Interestingly our analyses disclosed also the genetic connection between the Maslomencz population and ancient PonticCaspian steppe groups. In general, the collected results seem to be consistent with the historical narrative that assumed that the Goths originated in southern Scandinavia; then, at least part of the Goth population moved south through the territory of contemporary Poland towards the Black Sea region, where they mixed with local populations and formed the Chernyakhov culture. Finally, a fraction of the Chernyakhov population returned to the southeast region of presentday Poland and established the archaeological formation called the “Maslomecz group”..

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