Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early medieval Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early medieval and the modern people of the UK.

There are longstanding questions about the origins and ancestry of the Picts of early medieval Scotland (ca. 300-900 CE), prompted in part by exotic medieval origin myths, their enigmatic symbols and inscriptions, and the meagre textual evidence. The Picts, first mentioned in the late 3rd century CE...

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Main Authors: Adeline Morez, Kate Britton, Gordon Noble, Torsten Günther, Anders Götherström, Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela, Natalija Kashuba, Rui Martiniano, Sahra Talamo, Nicholas J Evans, Joel D Irish, Christina Donald, Linus Girdland-Flink
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-04-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010360