Beli Breyag Early Bronze Age
Two remains from Nova Zagora offer a whisper of Balkan continuity amid Early Bronze Age change.
Ancient and historical cultures
DNA Spotlights
Explore the places, time periods, and published research behind ancient DNA samples and the cultures associated with them.
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Boyanovo Dawn
Early Bronze Age lives at Boyanovo, Bulgaria — bones, pots, and trace ancestries
Vau‑Una Sambaqui — ca. 600 BP
A single coastal burial linking shell‑mound archaeology with Indigenous DNA evidence
Bronze Dawn of Bulgaria
Early Bronze Age communities (3400–2000 BCE) in Bulgarian tells and necropolises
Whispers of Chalcolithic Bulgaria
14 genomes (5468–4245 BCE) illuminate farmer maternal continuity and a small, varied paternal signal
Ezero Dawn: Nova Zagora Early Bronze Age
Two glimpses from Sabrano into Bulgaria's 4th–3rd millennium BCE world
Echoes of Iron in the Rhodope Hills
Early Iron Age communities in southern Bulgaria seen through archaeology and maternal genomes
Bronze Age Bulgaria: Kapitan Andreevo
A fragile genomic glimpse into southern Bulgaria's Early–Middle Bronze Age landscape.
Veliko Tarnovo: Iron Age Echoes
A single Dzhulyunitsa individual offers a tentative glimpse into 8th–6th century BCE Bulgaria
Bulgaria Early Bronze Age — Yamnaya Echoes
Steppe-inflected burials on Bulgarian mounds between 3011–2000 BCE
Krepost Neolithic Woman (c. 5723–5623 BCE)
A single Neolithic genome from Krepost links a Balkan burial to mtDNA lineage H5 — preliminary but evocative.
Echoes of Late Iron Age Bulgaria
Thracian landscapes and early Roman contacts revealed through three ancient genomes