Dewsloth
12-13-2019, 08:05 PM
But two of the three just showed up this year, so maybe we're on a roll!
Now that we have "critical mass" of a sample size larger than one, I thought I would take a tip from Bollox79's U106 observations and create a thread to keep all the finds as they (hopefully) keep coming in.
So the first two in find order (the oldest and youngest in burial date), 6Drif23 and VK333 were found at latitudes north of Hamburg, Germany. 6Drif23 in York and VK333 on the island of Öland, Sweden. The raw data for VK333 is still embargoed. In the preprint, autosomally, he looked like a number of other Danish Viking-era samples who all had a triple-peak mix of southern, western and northern components. Culturally (burial style and carved incisors) VK333 very much looks like a Viking.
Here is 6Drif23's autosomal G25 map:
https://i.imgur.com/yV165KI.png
https://i.imgur.com/Ed6fP9t.png
^^Culturally he and the rest of the decapitated Driffield Terrace crowd are something of a mystery. They were buried in a similar context, but it's not totally clear what was going on.
The third sample was found buried at the Mausoleo di Augusto (Mausoleum of the Emperor Augustus and a whole host of other Roman VIPs). We can probably rule out his being a Roman VIP, and his burial date estimate overlaps the date of the Mausoleum's looting (along with the rest of Rome) by Alaric's forces in 410 AD. While his burial far more south, his autosomal map is even more north "Germanic" than 6Drif23:
[COLOR=#FFFFFF]https://i.imgur.com/X3fhmCe.png
Y-SNPs: 6Drif23 is a DF88, RMPR31 is a Z302, and so far VK333 is just classified as DF19.
DF88 and Z302 are the two main subclades of DF19 and probably date at least as far back as Beaker times, but their modern distribution doesn't look radically different. Their modern distribution looks roughly like U106, just with far fewer members.
The two subclades may have traveled together or lived adjacently for a long time.
Now that we have "critical mass" of a sample size larger than one, I thought I would take a tip from Bollox79's U106 observations and create a thread to keep all the finds as they (hopefully) keep coming in.
So the first two in find order (the oldest and youngest in burial date), 6Drif23 and VK333 were found at latitudes north of Hamburg, Germany. 6Drif23 in York and VK333 on the island of Öland, Sweden. The raw data for VK333 is still embargoed. In the preprint, autosomally, he looked like a number of other Danish Viking-era samples who all had a triple-peak mix of southern, western and northern components. Culturally (burial style and carved incisors) VK333 very much looks like a Viking.
Here is 6Drif23's autosomal G25 map:
https://i.imgur.com/yV165KI.png
https://i.imgur.com/Ed6fP9t.png
^^Culturally he and the rest of the decapitated Driffield Terrace crowd are something of a mystery. They were buried in a similar context, but it's not totally clear what was going on.
The third sample was found buried at the Mausoleo di Augusto (Mausoleum of the Emperor Augustus and a whole host of other Roman VIPs). We can probably rule out his being a Roman VIP, and his burial date estimate overlaps the date of the Mausoleum's looting (along with the rest of Rome) by Alaric's forces in 410 AD. While his burial far more south, his autosomal map is even more north "Germanic" than 6Drif23:
[COLOR=#FFFFFF]https://i.imgur.com/X3fhmCe.png
Y-SNPs: 6Drif23 is a DF88, RMPR31 is a Z302, and so far VK333 is just classified as DF19.
DF88 and Z302 are the two main subclades of DF19 and probably date at least as far back as Beaker times, but their modern distribution doesn't look radically different. Their modern distribution looks roughly like U106, just with far fewer members.
The two subclades may have traveled together or lived adjacently for a long time.