23 early slavs from Suzdal, Balkans, Byzantine
The Slavs arose out of the lusatian culture of Eastern europe, ultimately descending from the unetice people of central europe. Descending from the Unetice, Corded Ware, and Bell Beaker cultures, the Slavs share common ancestry with Germanics and Celts. During the Migration period, the Slavs began to rapidly expand across eastern Europe, displacing the Balts, Uralics and Iranic peoples in Russia, Germanic and Celtic speakers in Central Europe, and Illyrians, Dacians and Thracians in the balkans. Slavs practiced agriculture, and animal herding. Their pottery was simple, and usually bell shaped.
For this video, I gathered the genomes of 23 medieval slavs that retained the majority of their slavic ancestry. 2 of these samples are byzantine slavs, who are closest to poles, 2 are balkan slavs, who are closest to bosnians and serbs, and the rest are slavic samples from russia - most from suzdal, and one from sunghir, mostly resembling modern central russians. I used my trait predictor tool for DNA analysis to analyze their DNA contents.