The Collective Tomb of Bury

North of Paris, the farmers of the Oise cut a long stone corridor into the earth — a gallery grave that would come to hold at least three hundred and sixteen people, one of the greatest collective tombs in France. Its genomes read like two chapters of a lost history. First came a village of vast patriarchal families — one pedigree spans five generations, its men all of one paternal line, its wives marrying in — a community that already knew the world's oldest plague. Then the burials stop; forest grows back over the land. When people return generations later and reopen the very same corridor, they are strangers: a new population sprung largely from Iberia, laying their dead among ancestors not their own. One tomb, faithfully remembered by two different peoples.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline.

Every Ancestrify Global25 report includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because these are a small group of real individuals, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances — that is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that the Collective Tomb of Bury are your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about the full G25 analysis.

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  Who were the Collective Tomb of Bury?

  The Collective Tomb of Bury (c. 3200–2500 BCE, Bury, Oise, France) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 12 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline".

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  What does "matching" the Collective Tomb of Bury mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No — and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the Collective Tomb of Bury?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestrify Global25 report — never sold separately. Order the G25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

The catalog holds every published entry across three tiers — browse the full Notable Matches directory. Nearby entries:

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• The Vučedol Culturec. 3000–2200 BCE

• Mota of the Ethiopian Highlandsc. 2500 BCE

• The Long Barrow Buildersc. 3700–3400 BCE

• The Bell Beaker Peoplec. 2500–2000 BCE

• Theopetra Cavec. 2250 BCE

• The Cucuteni–Trypillia Mega-Settlementsc. 4300–3500 BCE