"The #wholecemeteryDNA approach made it possible to reconstruct entire family trees. The 9-generation tree stretched from a founding male buried not long after the #Avars first arrived to a descendant 250 yrs later. The approach “made these people really come to life… how they organized their communities—something we never would see through written sources or #archaeology alone.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/massive-dna-study-reveals-mating-customs-mysterious-medieval-horse-riders