MATERNAL GENETIC COMPOSITION OF EARLY MEDIEVAL (6TH-10TH CENTURY AD) POPULATIONS LIVED IN THE CIS- AND TRANS-URAL AND VOLGA-KAMA REGIONS

Authors

  • Bea Szeifert Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Archaeology, Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Tóth Kálmán St., 4, Budapest, 1097, Hungary; Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Department of Genetics, Pázmány Péter promenade 1/C, Budapest, 1075, Hungary
  • Veronika Csákyová Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Archaeology, Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Tóth Kálmán St., 4, Budapest, 1097, Hungary
  • Balázs Stégmár Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Archaeology, Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Tóth Kálmán St., 4, Budapest, 1097 , Hungary; Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Department of Genetics, Pázmány Péter promenade 1/C, 23–27, Budapest, 1075, Hungary.
  • Dániel Gerber Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Archaeology, Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Tóth Kálmán St., 4, Budapest, 1097 , Hungary; Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Department of Genetics, Pázmány Péter promenade 1/C, 23–27, Budapest, 1075, Hungary
  • Balázs Egyed Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Department of Genetics, Kazinczy St., 23–27, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
  • Sergei G. Botalov South Ural State University. Lenin, Ave.,46, Chelyabinsk, 454080, , Russian Federation
  • Rimma D. Goldina Udmurt State University,Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of Udmurtia. Universitetskay St., 1, building 2, Izhevsk, 426034, Russian Federation
  • Andrei V. Danich Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University. Sibirskaya Str., 24, Perm, 614990, Russian Federation
  • Attila Türk Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Department of Archaeology, Szentkirályi, St., 28, Budapest, 1088, Hungary
  • Balázs Gusztáv Mende Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Archaeology, Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Tóth Kálmán St., 4, Budapest, 1097 , Hungary
  • Anna Szécsényi-Nagy Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Archaeology, Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Tóth Kálmán St., 4, Budapest, 1097 , Hungary

Keywords:

ancient mitochondrial DNA, maternal lineages, population genetics, Hungarian prehistory, Cis-Ural region, Trans-Ural region, Volga-Kama region

Abstract

Many scientifi c theories exist about the origin of Hungarians and their migration from Northern Central Asia to Europe in the 8th–9th centuries AD. Ethnic heterogeneity of the Hungarian Conquerors is attested by a number of historical and archaeological evidence due to their associated migration with other populations from the Ural region through the Middle-Volga region (and the Khazar Khaganate) until their arrival in the Carpathian Basin in 895 AD. The source region, direction, and chronology of the migration is still unclear and intensively studied by historians, archaeologists and linguists. In our studies, we approach these issues
using archaeogenetic methodology. We investigate early medieval (6th–10th AD) populations from the regions of the Ural Mountains, the presumed migration route and the Carpathian Basin. The sites can be associated with each other and the Hungarian Conquerors as well. Remains of the first cultures (Kushnarenkovo and Karayakupovo) associated with Hungarian prehistory are from the Middle and Southern Urals. Investigating whole mitochondrial genomes, our fi rst series came from the eastern (Uyelgi) and western (Bayanovo, Sukhoy Log, Bartim) side of the Middle-Southern Urals. As a continuation we included samples from the Volga-Kama region, with special attention to Bolshie Tigani site. We might get a better picture of the migration route and can map its stages and stopovers in a genetic context by extending our database with mitochondrial data from the presented series.

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Szeifert, B., Csákyová, V., Stégmár, B., Gerber, D., Egyed, B., Botalov, S. G., Goldina, R. D., Danich, A. V., Türk, A., Gusztáv Mende, B., & Szécsényi-Nagy, A. (2018). MATERNAL GENETIC COMPOSITION OF EARLY MEDIEVAL (6TH-10TH CENTURY AD) POPULATIONS LIVED IN THE CIS- AND TRANS-URAL AND VOLGA-KAMA REGIONS. Arkheologiia Evraziiskikh Stepei (Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppes), (6), 202–222. Retrieved from https://evrazstep.ru/index.php/aes/article/view/463

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