Were there really no people in Poland between 300 and 600 AD?
by Gunnar Heinsohn
Lecture given at the Polish Naval Museum at Gdynia, July 7th, 2020
New (2023): Genetic research supports Gunnar Heinsohn's thesis on the origins of the Polish people
The appearance of Slavs in East-Central Europe has been the subject of an over 200-year debate driven by two conflicting hypotheses. The first assumes that Slavs came to the territory of contemporary Poland no earlier than the sixth century CE; the second postulates that they already inhabited this region in the Iron Age (IA).
The presented results are in line with the hypothesis that assumes
the genetic continuation between Iron Age and Middle-Ages periods in East-Central Europe.
Read article on Genetic history of East-Central Europe in 1st millennium CE
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