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Archaeologists attribute these simple urns, buried as burial gifts in the 8th and 9th centuries AD, to the ancient Slavs. Credit: Archaeological Museum Zadar

Ancient skeleton genome reveals: Slavic people originated in large-scale migration from Eastern Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire

Comprehensive DNA research suggests that the Slavicization of Europe resulted from a large population movement after the fall of the Roman Empire, rather than from language assimilation by local elites