dna of people buried in a visigothic church near Madrid studied
DNA analysis of some of the individuals buried in the Visigothic church of El Rebollar, in the Madrid town of El Boalo, is beginning to provide relevant information about what the Visigothic and Late Medieval population of the central peninsula was like and how they lived.
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DNA analysis has focused on three individuals who provide very interesting data about the elite of the Visigothic period.
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Two males were buried in what is known as Tomb 4. The adult, 1.71 m tall, next to whom a double-handled bottle was found, could be dated between 656 and 725. The other individual, a young man of about 15 years of age, is dated between 669 and 778. DNA studies will determine if there is a close relationship or lineage between these two individuals buried in the same tomb.
THE STUDY OF TWO NEWBORNS
Another point of interest of the project focuses on a burial located in a building parallel to the Visigothic church, dating from the first half of the 15th century. They are two full-term or newborn fetuses buried together. They appeared back to back and on their sides, in the fetal position. In this case, genetic markers were also analyzed to determine if they could be twins or if they had some other kind of biological relationship.
The three individuals exhumed from graves 4 and 6 have different mitochondrial DNA profiles, which would indicate that there is no biological link between them.
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However, with respect to the perinatal individuals, the mitochondrial DNA fragments examined in both are identical, supporting the hypothesis that they are twins. They were also found to belong to the mitochondrial haplogroup HV0, which is currently widespread in Europe and the Middle East.
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