Ancient DNA Reveals Migrations

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Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD

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New data analysis method called Twigstats allows the differences between genetically similar groups to be measured more precisely.

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick Institute .

One person in southern Europe carried 100% Scandinavian -like ancestry.

Twigstats 'opens up the exciting possibility of finally resolving these crucial questions' Professor of Medieval History at King's College London said migration played some role in the restructuring of the human landscape of western Eurasia in the second half of the first millennium AD .

The nature, scale and even the trajectories of the movements have always been hotly disputed.

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