Iron Gates HG high quality 11 DNA samples 23andme

The Iron Gates hunter-gatherers were a Mesolithic population who lived in the Danube Gorges region along the modern border of Serbia and Romania, especially at sites such as Lepenski Vir, Vlasac, and Padina. They flourished roughly between 10,000 and 6,000 BCE, during the Mesolithic period, occupying one of the most ecologically rich corridors in prehistoric Europe.

The Iron Gates people were primarily complex hunter-gatherers. Unlike highly mobile Ice Age foragers, they were relatively sedentary due to the extraordinary abundance of resources in the Danube Gorge.

Their subsistence economy focused on fishing, hunting, and gathering. Genetically and archaeologically, the Iron Gates hunter-gatherers descend from earlier European populations known as Western Hunter-Gatherers who spread across Europe after the Last Glacial Maximum, although they have minor eastern hunter gatherer and anatolian hunter gatherer admixture.

For this video, I’ve gathered the raw genomes of 11 iron gates hunter gatherers, and used academic tools, such as admixtools 1, but also amateur tools, such as my trait predictor, to analyze them.