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Power systems transcended kinship in medieval Europe. According to a new study, a funeral site in southern Germany contains members of a powerful family of warriors who have traveled extensively to find recruits to join the family and support a post-Roman kingdom.
Thirteen people buried in Niederstotzingen belonged to the Alemanni, a confederation of Germanic tribes conquered and integrated into a neighboring kingdom of the Franks, about 1400 years ago, according to researchers. The 1962 excavations revealed the bodies, which the team estimates were buried from about 580 to 630, with various weapons, armor, jewelry, flanged clothing and the remains of three horses.
German biomolecular archaeologist Niall O'Sullivan of Eurac Research's Institute of Mummy Studies in Bolzano, Italy, and his colleagues reported online on September 5th. Scientists progress. Six skeletons have shown genetic links with modern European North and East. All but one of these six were closely related, including one father and two of his sons. Chemical analyzes of tooth enamel, which provide regional signals on early childhood nutrition, indicated that these people grew up near Niederstotzingen.
Artifacts from three foreign European medieval cultures were found in the graves of four local men. The researchers suspect that weapons and other things typical of the Franks accompanied a man – the father mentioned earlier – who could have headed the elite home.
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Three other people buried on the site were genetically independent of anyone. Two had DNA like that of the present Mediterranean peoples. All have spent their childhood in other regions, suggest the dental data.
The new results confirm earlier suggestions that shortly after the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century (SN: 29/04/17, p. 18), the Frankish Empire maintained power throughout Central Europe for several centuries by establishing mobile foci of warriors that enforced obedience to the ruler.
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