{"id":1787,"date":"2026-04-09T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomikadlapolski.pl\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:53:40","slug":"wyniki-badan-genetycznych-piastow-opublikowane-w-nature-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomikadlapolski.pl\/en\/wyniki-badan-genetycznych-piastow-opublikowane-w-nature-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Results of genetic research on the Piasts published in Nature Communications journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The long-awaited study presenting the results<\/em> of genetic research on the Piasts has finally \nbeen published in the journal Nature Communications. The authors of the paper are \ngeneticists, biologists, bioinformaticians, anthropologists, historians, and archaeologists from \nthe Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Adam \nMickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144. The initiator of the interdisciplinary research described in \nthe article and the leader of the team that conducted it is Prof. Marek Figlerowicz. The first \nauthors are Micha\u0142 Ze\u0144czak, a doctoral student, and Luiza Handschuh, who heads the \n\u201cGenomics for Poland (G4PL)\u201d project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Piasts are widely regarded as one of the great royal dynasties that shaped the political \nstructure of medieval Europe in the 10th century CE. Despite their significance as the \nfounders and rulers of the early Polish kingdom, little is known about the origins of the \nPiasts, the conditions under which Poland transformed into a medieval monarchy, or the \nmechanisms behind the emergence of independent political entities in 10th-century Central \nand Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A newly published study presents interdisciplinary research on Piast necropolises scattered \nthroughout Poland. In eight of them, the remains of 33 individuals were found, most likely \nbelonging to members of Poland\u2019s first royal dynasty. Multidirectional archaeogenomic \nanalyses confirmed the identities of ten Piasts. Based on the genomic data obtained for \nthem, maternal lines (mitochondrial haplogroups) were determined, linking the identified \nPiasts to over 200 historical figures from 10 European royal dynasties. This group includes \n108 Piasts, 32 Rurikids, 12 Gediminids, 23 \u00c1rpads, 15 P\u0159emyslids, 13 Hohenzollerns, 10 \nHabsburgs, 8 Wettins, 5 Anjou, and 4 Wittelsbachs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paternal lineage (Y-haplogroup) identified among the Piasts (R1b-BY3549) is currently \nvery rare. The same lineage has been found in ancient DNA databases in three individuals \nfrom northwestern Europe (present-day France, the Netherlands, and England) who lived \nduring the Piast era or earlier. Taken together, these findings suggest that the Piasts were \nnot of local origin and support the hypothesis that the state-building processes occurring in \nthe 9th\u201311th centuries in Central and Eastern Europe were driven not only by local elites but \nalso by outsiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to the publication: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-71457-1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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