The Sarmatians of the Great Hungarian Plain

For some four hundred years the Sarmatians held the Alfold, the Great Hungarian Plain, wedged between Roman Pannonia and Dacia, and left almost nothing in writing: the forgotten people of the Carpathian Basin. Genomes from more than forty cemeteries across the plain, Madaras-Halmok the largest among them, traced their ancestry back to the Sarmatians of the Urals and the Kazakh steppe by way of intermediaries in what is now Romania. About 12 percent of them were still mostly steppe in ancestry, and a small but real East Asian component persisted. The migration was led by men: the paternal line R1a-Z93 turned over while maternal lines stayed stable. Twelve people from the first to fourth centuries CE are gathered here, and their ancestry lingered on into the Hun period.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the 'forgotten people': A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin.

Every Ancestry Map 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 Sarmatians of the Great Hungarian Plain are your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about Ancestry Map, the full Global25 report.

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  Who were the Sarmatians of the Great Hungarian Plain?

  The Sarmatians of the Great Hungarian Plain (1st-4th century CE, The Great Hungarian Plain, Hungary) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 12 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the 'forgotten people': A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin".

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  What does "matching" the Sarmatians of the Great Hungarian Plain 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 Sarmatians of the Great Hungarian Plain?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestry Map, never sold separately. Order Ancestry Map, our Global25 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.

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