The Bronze Age Epirotes of Ammotopos

At Kokkino Lithari, near Ammotopos north of Arta, a motorway rescue excavation in 2015 uncovered a limestone slab-built tomb opposite House A of the ancient town of Orraon, on a route linking Athamania, Molossis and the Ambracian plain. It held four burials, a drinking vessel and a bronze ring. Two of its occupants, a woman and a man of the Late Bronze Age, are gathered here. Their genomes plot with other Late Bronze Age Greeks and model as about 56 percent Middle Bronze Age mainland Greek and 44 percent Late Bronze Age Cretan: Epirus already belonged to the Greek world of the Late Bronze Age. Strikingly, they share no identifiable DNA segments with the Archaic colonists of nearby Amvrakia centuries later, despite the closeness of the two sites.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Genetic affinities between the ancient Greek colony of Amvrakia and its metropolis.

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  Who were the Bronze Age Epirotes of Ammotopos?

  The Bronze Age Epirotes of Ammotopos (c. 1275-1125 BCE, Kokkino Lithari, Ammotopos, Arta, Epirus, Greece) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 2 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Genetic affinities between the ancient Greek colony of Amvrakia and its metropolis".

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  What does "matching" the Bronze Age Epirotes of Ammotopos 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 Bronze Age Epirotes of Ammotopos?

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