Projects & Grants
| An archaeogenetic window on the Slavic dispersal in the first millennium CE: Leveraging the power of cultural outliers and haplotype-sharing networks | |
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| Project Id | 25-17789S |
| Main solver | M.Sc. Pavel Flegontov, Ph.D. |
| Period | 1/2025 - 12/2027 |
| Provider | Standardní projekt GA ČR |
| State | solved |
| Anotation | Archaeogenetics of human populations is reaching new milestones. Sampling becomes dense in many periods and regions, allowing us to move beyond the concepts of panmictic populations and admixture graphs to more realistic and fine-grained approaches of landscape genetics. High-quality data for thousands of individuals and new imputation methodology tailored to ancient DNA allow us to analyze networks of distant relatives through shared long autosomal haplotypes, overcoming limitations of the traditional archaeogenetic toolkit (PCA, ADMIXTURE, f-statistics, qpAdm). Taking advantage of these methodological breakthroughs and of our collection of unpublished genomic data for >1000 individuals from the Roman, Early and Late Medieval periods in Central/East/Southeast Europe, we plan to investigate the genetic processes that accompanied the historical phenomenon known as ?Slavic dispersal?. All the proposed methods work at the level of individuals, are suitable for comparing cultural and genetic traits at the archaeological site level and for identification of communication corridors. |
