
austria8 min
Austrian DNA: ancient origins from the Danube farmers to Hallstatt, Noricum and the Slavic east
Austria is the Danube corridor into central Europe, the home of the salt-mine cemetery that named the Celtic Iron Age, and a country whose east and south were settled by Slavs. What ancient DNA shows about Austrian ancestry, its closeness to Bavaria, the Slavic gradient toward Carinthia and Burgenland, and how to read an Austrian genome.