Researchers from the UK have developed a method for analyzing Twigstats data to study genetically similar groups to identify previously unknown migration details in Europe, covering such periods as the Iron Age, the decay of the Roman Empire, the “period of migration” of the early Middle Ages and the Vikings era before AD. They applied this method to more than 1,500 European genomes of people who lived between 1-1000 years BC.
Thanks to this method that allows you to more accurately measure the differences between genetically similar groups, found that Germanic tribes living in North Germany and Scandinavian regions migrated to the south during this period
Using this multi -level approach to the analysis of the ancestors, the genetic traces of these tribes were found in Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and the south of Great Britain.
Having determined that most of these groups mixed with the population in the regions where they migrated, the researchers found that there were two main areas of migration and interaction: one remained in Scandinavia, and the other reflected the main branches of Germanic languages that form the basis of today’s German and English Languages.
Researchers found that 25 percent of a person who could be a Roman soldier or gladiator in England between the 2nd and 4th centuries, comes from Scandinavia of the early Iron Age, which proves the existence of people of Scandinavian origin in England before the Anglo-Ski Vikings .
Having studied the details of migration in Scandinavia at the end of the Iron Age, the researchers also found that the people who lived in this region during the Vikings migrated to Central Europe.
One of the authors of the study by Leo Shpidel noted that “Twigstats” allows you to see what was previously impossible to see. “In this case, we can see the migrations that began in the north of Europe in the Iron Age and spread throughout Europe up to Scandinavia to the Vikings era.” he said.
The study was published in the journal “Nature”.