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medievalists.net/2026/10/how-dna-is-rewriting-the-history-of-early-medieval-europe

How DNA Is Rewriting the History of Early Medieval Europe

DNA from 7,700 early medieval graves is rewriting the Avar era: one Austrian cemetery turns out to be mostly East Asian in ancestry, a neighboring one European, yet both buried their dead the same way. The new Vienna exhibition says culture, not biology, made the difference.

— via Medievalists.net, Medievalists.net


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