Methodology deep-dives, population spotlights, and engineering notes from the Ancestrify team — qpAdm modelling, ancient DNA panels, and how genetic ancestry analysis really works.
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Ukraine holds the Yamnaya homeland, the Trypillia mega-sites and the likeliest cradle of the Slavic expansion. What ancient DNA shows about Ukrainian ancestry, and how to read a Ukrainian genome.
Russian ancestry is a Slavic core laid over older northern and steppe worlds: what ancient DNA shows about the East Slavic expansion, the Uralic-related north, the steppe south, and how to read a Russian genome.
Poland's ancient-DNA story has a twist most national histories lack: a documented population turnover in the first millennium CE. Goths and Wielbark, the early Slavic horizon, what modern Polish genomes show, and how to read your own.
A 555-genome study traces large-scale Early Medieval migration associated with Slavic expansion, regional admixture and changing communities.