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:

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-FT29339

See also...

Early Slavs from Tribal Period Poland

Wielbark Goths were overwhelmingly of Scandinavian origin

High-resolution stuff