The Dolní Věstonice Triple Burial

Three young people were buried together in a single dramatic grave at Dolní Věstonice, the Ice Age mammoth-hunter camp that also produced the world's oldest fired ceramics. Their poses have puzzled archaeologists for decades. Genomes from the site helped map the Gravettian world — the culture of mammoth-bone huts and Venus figurines that spanned Ice Age Europe.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in The genetic history of Ice Age Europe.

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 Dolní Věstonice Triple Burial 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 Dolní Věstonice Triple Burial?

  The Dolní Věstonice Triple Burial (c. 29,000 BCE, Dolní Věstonice, Czechia) are one of the Deep time entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 3 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "The genetic history of Ice Age Europe".

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  What does "matching" the Dolní Věstonice Triple Burial 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 Dolní Věstonice Triple Burial?

  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 Sunghir Burialc. 32,000 BCE

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• Goyet Q116-1c. 33,000 BCE

• Mal'ta Boyc. 22,500 BCE

• Kostenki Manc. 36,000 BCE

• Tianyuan Manc. 38,000 BCE

• Oase 1c. 38,000 BCE

• Ust'-Ishim Manc. 43,000 BCE

• The Bacho Kiro Pioneersc. 43,000 BCE

• The Ranis Pioneersc. 45,000–41,000 BCE

• The Zlatý Kůň Womanc. 43,000 BCE