The place did the Slavs come from? On this video I will likely be attempting to reply this query based mostly on a 2025 paleogenetic paper by Gretzinger et al.
For extra info and to help my analysis, try my Patreon: https://patreon.com/EuropeanOrigins?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink
Map Prints & Merch: https://www.etsy.com/store/EuropeanOrigins?ref=dashboard-header
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction: The Thriller of Slavic Origins
01:17 The Historic Context: Germanic Tribes & Roman Borders
02:04 The Arrival of the Goths and Vandals
03:37 The “Abandonment” of Jap Central Europe
04:10 Re-evaluating Historic Sources & Ethnic Labels
06:24 Can Archaeology Determine Ethnicity?
07:17 The Energy of Paleogenetics
08:38 Research Setup: 555 Historic People
09:56 Knowledge Units: Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and the Balkans
11:44 Variety vs. Homogeneity in Pre-Slavic Europe
13:17 The Dramatic Genetic Shift after 600 AD
15:06 Admixture Fashions: Monitoring 5,000 Years of Change
16:53 Defining the Ancestral Areas (North Sea, Baltic, Mediterranean)
22:36 Analyzing the Northwestern Balkans Transformation
24:30 The Genetic Historical past of Jap Germany
27:59 Poland and Ukraine: From Early Farmers to Indo-Europeans
30:38 The “80% Alternative” in Jap Germany and the Balkans
32:42 Figuring out the Early Slavic Genetic Core
35:05 The Origin of Slavic Ancestry: Baltic & Farmer Intermixing
36:44 The Nice Migration & Linguistic Break up
37:27 Conclusion & Closing Ideas
Sources:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09437-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05247-2
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867422014684
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08275-2
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6436108/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867423011352
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14317
Picture Rights:
By cs:ŠJů – Personal work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7705306
By Silar – Personal work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=153452081
File:Slavic pottery vessel from Klučov, Eighth-ealry ninth century AD, 187607.jpg – Wikimedia Commons
By Jakub Hałun – Personal work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130744597
#slav #slavs #slavic #dna #genetics #paleogenetics #ancestry #historical past #ancienthistory #medievalhistory #easterneuropeanhistory
supply
Thank you for watching my video, I hope you enjoyed it! If you want to support my research further, you can do so by visiting my Etsy Store, where I sell prints of my own, as well as historical maps and merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EuropeanOrigins?ref=dashboard-header.
All support is greatly appreciated and will help me fund my PhD.
Nobody writes about Slavs in the yearly centuries,this is propaganda terminology
Лажна карта и објава.
Eastern Romans or Just Late Romans used rather archaic names when it comes to refering their contemporaries, hence an array of pontic steppe people being called scythians, serbian rulers being called princes/archons of the triballi, an array of turkomans (even not persianized seljuk elites) being called just plain persian. More popular examples are the universal monicher of latin or frank for any western european not explicitly french ones.
I mean this is all bs shit.. u talk about race or just name culture.. goths are vasically germanic.. so uts all same
why do I hear the word ukraine? ukraine didn't exist ever until soviets created the ukrainian soviet republic. why do you use the word anatolian for the modern turkey region? all very stupid. ai trained on biased data. all propaganda. nothing scietific. blah!
European origins are from Europe. So many out of Europe creators on youtube make these AI videos about origins of Europeans, like we came from elsewhere. Illegal emigrants come from elsewhere.
The only reason why Slavic origins have been "shrouded in mystery" is because some scientists keep categorizing tribes as Germanic without any evidence, often contradicting the very sources they base their narratives on.
"Elbe Germanic" mixes Germanic and Slavic peoples. Marcomanni were Germanic, Quadi were Slavic. Quadi later became Slovenes/Slovaks who gave name to the whole language family. Przeworsk culture was fully slavic. Vandals were Slavic. Wielbark were Scandinavian Goths. As Goths expanded south-east, they ruled over local Slavs and Scythians. When Turkic nomads arrived, Goths and Scythians had to flee, so Slavs got the whole region to themselves. Both directions of Slavic expansion (Danube and Black Sea) met in Balkans, and the Byzantine sources refer to them respectively as Sclavenes and Antes.
No people have ever abandoned perfectly habitable land without significant external pressure. That story of "Germanic migrations" is complete nonsense. They were most likely just expansions/conquests by tribal military aristocracy, a fairly mundane event in the ancient world. They were just groups of warriors, small in number, hence no noticeable genetic impact. The depopulation was most likely due to a plague, which also hit Rome at about that time. The population vacuum was filled from the east by people escaping nomads and devastating wars.
The information at 35:05 about the original genetic formation of the Proto-Slavic population is very interesting! Personally I have been thinking that Slavic seems like "Indo-Iranian influenced by Italo-Celtic" at its core, typologically. So, I have also thought that maybe the process was some kind of mixing like the genetic information here depicts — and the EEF-enriched population might have been Romance-speaking. After all, modern day Romania in that same region is still also Romance-speaking, due to Roman domination and colonization.
They got in to europe
The balcans had the oldest civilizations
The vinca
Those are scAndinavians
Not germanic
And what are the germanic languages
The scandinavians spoke old norse
Sueves were from sweden
Vikings
He was gremanico
In his name
An. Invention of julio cesar
Cesar called the gallias germanicas and he was in today france
He never went to today germany
Later they got in and made trier colonia
The towns
Funny how we use the term “Slav”, or “Slavic” about these people, culture, language and DNA, when it literally means “slave” in Old Norse as well as North Germanic languages today, due to the Norse raiders/pirates aka Vikings, taking so many of them as slaves and selling them, hence the name. Before the Swedish vikings went east, the majority of the gene pool that was exported back to Scandinavia through slavery, was Celtic. So much so that the current Norse population at the time was heavily Celtic/Britannic, before Slavs were introduced.
Man, you really can't confuse material/archeological cultures; genetic groups; ethnic identity and linguistic communities. It's OBVIOUS to us today, but as soon as we start talking about archeology and history, people forget about it in an instant.
Today the predominant language in Singapore is English. Good luck picking that up from genetic studies.
Material culture is the same – just because groups of people share the same material culture, doesn't mean they have the same ethnic identity. Or that they speak the same language. Asking whether this or that material culture is slavic or germanic is silly. It could be both. Or something else entirely. Material culture CAN be corelated to language, but doesn't have to.
Similarly change in ethnic or linguistic identity can happen without much of genetic shift. Just like it happened in Singapore or countless other countries.
СЛАВА РОДУ
🙂
My family has very low % 7% 3% 2% so most likely not any of these My understanding is low % are maybe✌️❤️
The 7 groups by DNA my family is part of only by country not all area's Thank ya for sharing this ✌️❤️
But you have to also take an account of the Justinian plague which decimated most of Europe so today’s people are remnants of what was left and which people took advantage of the Europe that was left empty and the Roman Empires collapse.
Mentally ill comments section.
Israelites
Bullshit
Sorbs mentioned! 🎉
Amazing video. 👍
Mystery is a bit of a stretch.
You need to check last researches. The appearance of slavs is connected with zarubinetskaya culture.
Niemcy jak Rzymianie pisza wszystkim historje według siebie Dzieki genetyce i h propaganda ma krutkie nogi Na ywali siebie aryjczykami hc nie maja znimi ic wspólnego zato Slowianie owszem
Now days Serbia is origine of all Slovenskih naroda. VINCA CULTURE , LEPENSKI VIR CULTURE, sStarcevo, Plocnik…
We are,, SLOVENI,, from SLOVITI old form of talking and understanding. Germans are,, NEMCI,, from Slovenski NEM not able to talk to understand.
Przeworsk culture was significantly influenced by the celtic culture
The more jokes like this, the less funny they become.
Cool. Second time I have watched this. There an another channel I watch that shares your topics, but more dramatic & less academic. I prefer you. I am of extremely mixed ancestry, so often I had ancestors in these areas. More curiosity than Identity politics. I barely want to identify as human. lol
R1b copium
Clowns dont MENTION MAKEDONIANS that is proven that they are not greek. They are there 9000 years ..that is proven.! 7000 years old is
skopje ! EAST ROMAN EMPIRE WAS MAKEDONIAN. THE MONEY WAS CALLED SAME AS TODAY DENARI.THE STAMS SAY MACEDONIA. SO WHY DO YOU SAY GREEKS? THAT COUNTRY DIDNT EXIST TILL 1821 ! SO WHY DO MAKEDONIANS HAVE ANCIANT MAKEDONIAN DNA AND GERMANIK DNA TOO
I would rather be a gypsy than a slav!!!!
Slavs are descendants of ancient Romans. Sue me
Here is yet more German nonsense—this time "scientific"—about the Slavs, whom Germans so detest 🙂
Since at least the time of Bismarck, Germans have harbored a pathological hatred of Slavs, stemming
from inferiority complexes 🙂 That is why they distort the history and characteristics of this largest ethnic
group in Europe—a group that conquered half of Europe by force, rather than—as deceitful German
historians would have it—merely occupying "empty" lands abandoned by "brave" Germanic peoples
fleeing the Huns and Slavs :).
In Southern Europe, the Slavs conquered Greece and attacked Byzantium. In the West, they conquered
what is now eastern and northern Germany, as well as southern Sweden and Norway. In the 10th and
11th centuries, the Slavs dominated the Baltic; notably, they burned down the Swedish maritime capital
of Konungahela in 1135.
The Slavs were, above all, fierce and well-organized warriors (and not—as the Germans would very
much like to claim—mere farmers and gatherers); in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, within the territory
of present-day Ukraine, they intermingled with the Scythians and Sarmatians, from whom they adopted
military vocabulary (e.g., *bohater*, meaning brave or courageous), a warrior ethos, and a warrior
organizational structure (*voivodes*).
The Germanic peoples, on the other hand, were primarily craftsmen! For instance, the Ostrogoths
produced bone combs for all of Europe at the time—which is why they surrendered to the Huns
without a fight and became their slaves.
Male Slavic names (Boleslav, Vladimir, Stanislav, Wolodymir, Zbigniew) describe warrior traits – such as brave,
valiant, fierce, commanding, renowned, etc.—whereas Germanic names describe animal traits
(e.g., "Wolfgang") or objects (e.g., Brunnhild).
For the truth is that Slavs are a brave Aryan people (Haplogroup R1a) related to Iranians and the Brahmins
of India! Meanwhile, Germanic peoples possess the dominant Celtic haplogroup (R1b). Slavic deities and
beliefs align with Indian and Persian mythology. The vocabularies of Slavic languages and Indian Sanskrit
overlap by 80%,whereas English and German vocabularies overlap by only 5%!