Reassessing Barbarian Migrations through Ancient DNA - Patrick Geary

Global Pre-Modern Studies presents: ”Reassessing Barbarian Migrations through Ancient DNA,” a talk by Patrick Geary (Institute for Advances Study, Princeton). 

Scholars, poets and politicians have debated the role of barbarian migrations into the Western Roman Empire for centuries, but our actual knowledge of these population movements has long been limited by the laconic written sources and the ambiguous archaeological evidence. By integrating genomic data into the mix, the interdisciplinary research project HistoGenes is producing new and solid evidence of the diverse changes in population in the crucial Danuban frontier of the Empire between the fifth and ninth centuries.

Patrick Geary, one of the principal investigators of HistoGenes, will show how collaboration among geneticists, historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists is elucidating populations changes in this tumultuous period.

This event is co-sponsored by the History, Anthropology and Biology departments.