Genetic Study Reveals Cultural Integration in Avar Communities in the Early Middle Ages - Medievalists.net

The Avars, a group that arrived in the region from the East Asian steppes in the 6th century AD, settled among a diverse local population. However, questions lingered about the ancestry of those buried in these 8th-century sites: were they descendants of the Avar conquerors, the local populations, or a mixture of both?