Publications by authors named "Attila P Kiss"
Huns, Avars, and conquering Hungarians were migration-period nomadic tribal confederations that arrived in three successive waves in the Carpathian Basin between the 5 and 9 centuries. Based on the historical data, each of these groups are thought to have arrived from Asia, although their exact origin and relation to other ancient and modern populations have been debated. Recently, hundreds of ancient genomes were analyzed from Central Asia, Mongolia, and China, from which we aimed to identify putative source populations for the above-mentioned groups.
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- The Gepids were a Germanic tribe that settled in the Carpathian Basin during the Migration Period, becoming allies of the Huns and later forming an independent kingdom after the fall of the Hun Empire.
- Due to limited historical and archaeological evidence, there's ongoing debate about the origins and makeup of these populations, prompting new research into their genetic legacy.
- The study analyzed 46 complete mitochondrial genomes from Gepid cemeteries in Transylvania dating to the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD, revealing that the Gepids primarily descended from Northwestern European lineages, which contributed significantly to their genetic structure.