PL046 R-YP6228 PL048 I-PH833 PL049 I-A11537 PL052 R-Y48961 PL059 I-PH833 PL062 I-S15301 PL065 I-Y294193 PL066 R-FGC2555 PL067 R-S7759 PL070 I-CTS10028 PL071 I-BY316 PL076 I-S9318 PL082 I-Z2041 PL085 J-Z38241 PL086 I-FT29339See also... Early Slavs from Tribal Period Poland Wielbark Goths were overwhelmingly of Scandinavian origin High-resolution stuff
Saturday, January 17, 2026
New Iron Age samples from southeastern Poland
A new dataset has appeared online from a yet to be published paper titled Cosmopolitanism in the depths of Barbaricum evidenced by archaeogenomic data from the Late Iron Age Goth community of the Masłomęcz group.
Most of these Gothic samples are clearly of Scandinavian origin, and very similar to present-day Swedes. Overall, however, they create a somewhat heterogeneous cluster that also overlaps with present-day Poles thanks to the presence of a few Balto-Slavic-related and possibly Roman-related individuals.
The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) plots below were produced with the excellent Vahaduo G25 Global Views tool using the data here.
Their Y-haplogroups more or less reflect the PCA results:


