Abstract Background The appearance of Slavs in East-Central Europe has been the subject
of an over 200-year debate driven by two conflicting hypotheses. The first assumes that …

The Slavic branch of the Balto-Slavic sub-family of Indo-European languages underwent
rapid divergence as a result of the spatial expansion of its speakers from Central-East …

Slavs in the Making takes a fresh look at archaeological evidence from parts of Slavic-
speaking Europe north of the Lower Danube, including the present-day territories of the …

We applied an interdisciplinary approach to investigate kinship patterns and funerary
practices during the middle Neolithic. Genetic studies, radiocarbon dating, and taphonomic …

The genetic composition of the medieval populations of Central Europe has been poorly
investigated to date. In particular, the region of modern-day Slovakia is a blank spot in …

Who are the English? Their language and culture have had an impact on the modern world
out of all proportion to the size of their homeland. But what do we really understand about …

Background Rome became the prosperous Capital of the Roman Empire through the
political and military conquests of neighbouring areas. People were able to move …

The study presents a full analysis of the Y-chromosome variability of the modern male Polish
population. It is the first study of the Polish population to be conducted with such a large set …

Data on the variability of the nucleotide sequences of whole mitochondrial genomes in
populations of Russians, Poles, and Serbs, which represent, respectively, the groups of …

Objectives In the sixth century AD, Avars came to Central Europe from middle Eurasian
steppes and founded a strong Empire called the Avar Khagante (568–799/803 AD) in the …