Carpathian Basin: Avars, early period → Avars, late period → Hungarians → Medieval Hungarian
The Avars came to the Carpathian Basin in the 6th century, and their khaganate lasted until the early 9th. Later the conquering Hungarians took the basin. Early Avars are 43% N, the conquering Hungarians 27%, while the medieval population of Hungary is led by R1b and R1a. It shares about as much with the early Avars as with the conquerors: 39% and 37%.
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Y-DNA: paternal lines
Table of shares
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Table of shares
How to read the chart
Each sample is cut to its ancestor at the chosen depth; a sample whose test did not reach that deep stays on its own branch. An asterisk: in this culture the branch also has samples further down. “A → B” is the share of A's samples with a branch of the same line in B: the same branch, its ancestor or a branch under it. A sample whose test stopped higher could belong to any branch under it, so it matches them. The frequency overlap sums the smaller share of every shared branch, such a sample's share split among the branches under it by their shares in both cultures together; it is less swayed by single samples. By age, a sample moves up to the ancestor whose branch had already split off by the chosen year (branch ages are Discover estimates), so every letter is cut at the same time. “Auto” takes the time of the oldest culture chosen, or earlier if a column would not read otherwise. Maternal lines follow the Mitotree tree of FTDNA Discover.
The chain in numbers #
Y-DNA, tree depth 12. Similarity is the overlap of branch frequencies with the culture before.
| Culture | Samples | Leading groups | Similarity with the previous |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avars, early period | 47 | N 42.6%, R1a 10.6%, E1b1b 10.6% | — |
| Avars, late period | 68 | N 20.6%, E1b1b 20.6%, R1b 14.7% | 43.9% |
| Hungarians | 11 | N 27.3% (3 of 11, 95% confidence interval: 10–57%), R1a 18.2% (2 of 11, 95% confidence interval: 5–48%), E1b1b 18.2% (2 of 11, 95% confidence interval: 5–48%) | 37.2% |
| Medieval Hungarian | 114 | R1b 26.3%, R1a 24.6%, I2a 11.4% | 36.5% |
Other chains
- Iberian Peninsula: Neolithic Iberian → Chalcolithic Iberian → Bell Beaker culture → Bronze Age Iberian
- Pontic steppe: Srubnaya → Scythians → Sarmatians
- Central Europe, Bronze and Iron Age: Unterwölbling culture → Urnfield culture → Hallstatt culture → La Tène culture
- Central Europe, dawn of the Bronze Age: Corded Ware culture → Bell Beaker culture → Únětice culture
- Danube, first farmers: Iron Gates Mesolithic → Starčevo culture → Linear Pottery culture
- Steppe from the Dnieper to the Urals: Yamnaya culture → Catacomb culture
- Italy: Etruscan civilization → Roman people → Medieval Italian
- Scandinavia and Rus’: Iron Age Scandinavian → Viking Age Swedish → Viking Age Russian