DNA of the original peoples: Jews, Vikings, Germanic peoples, Macedonians, Arabs
DNA of the indigenous peoples
By ancient tribes, we refer to groups of people from the ancient past which are defined not only by their specific language, culture and history but also by their specific DNA profile. What is important is not the common linguistic ancestry or the historical-anthropological categorisation, but the individual genetic characteristics of a people. Within every ancient tribe several different lineages can be found. These lineages reflect the different populations which took part in the ethnogenesis of this ancient tribe.
More primitive peoples from A - Z
| Urvolk | Description |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal Australians | What does the name Aborigines mean? The indigenous inhabitants of Australia reached the fifth continent approximately 40,000 - 50,000 years ago. The name “Aborigine” is derived from Latin and... |
| Arabs | What was the ethnogenesis of the Arabs? The only thing that is certain is that the ethnic profile of Arab populations originated from a fusion of population groups that lived on the Arabian... |
| Berbers | What was the ethnogenesis of the Berbers? The Berber ethnic identity is the result of a fusion between indigenous middle stone age populations of the Caspian period and Neolithic immigrants who... |
| Chinese | Where is the origin of the Chinese? Archeological discoveries prove that the so-called Yangshao Culture already existed on the middle Huang He in the third millennium B.C. According to one list of... |
| Dacians | What is the origin of the Dacians? The Dacians were an Indo-European people and closely related to the Thracians. They represented the majority population in Transylvania (Transylvania). A... |
| Etruscans | Where is the origin of the Etruscans? The language of the Etruscans is not Indo-Germanic and before its disappearance as a spoken language it left clear traces in Latin. According to some... |
| Iberians | What does the name Iberian mean? Although the name "Iberia" cannot be proven until the time of the 2nd Punic War (218-201 BC), it is older than Hispania. The name probably goes back to the ancient... |
| Indigenous peoples of | What is the history of the indigenous people in North America? The American double continent was colonized by modern Homo sapiens between 25,000 and 12,000 BC. Initially, only Alaska was... |
| Inka | What is the history of the Inca? Historically, the Inca people around 1200 in the area of Cuzco in southern Peru become comprehensible. Originally, the name "Inca" was associated with a local clan... |
| Inuit | What does the name Inuit mean? The word "Inuit“ means "human being" and is used as a collective term for various ethnic groups in the arctic regions of America, to which belong the Inuavialuit in... |
| Italic peoples | What were the peoples of Italy? Most of the peoples who populated the Apennine Peninsula in Roman times were Indo-Germanic. Due to their linguistic affinity, two Indo-Germanic populations can be... |
| Japanese people | Where is the origin of the Japanese? Humans had already colonized Japan according to some sources 100,000 years ago, at the latest though, this occurred by 25,000 B.C., when Japan was connected to... |
| Celts | Who were or are the Celts? The Celts were not a unified people, but a group of peoples related in language, religion, mythology as well as art and culture, but not necessarily in genetic terms.... |
| Kurds | What is the history of the Kurds? The Kurds lived for more than 2,000 years in neighboring mountainous regions in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Armenia. They remained more or less autonomous, although... |
| Ligures | Where is the origin of the Ligurians? The Ligurians are known from ancient written sources and were settled in southern France, northern Italy, and the western Alps. They were probably the... |
| Maya | Where is the origin of the Maya? The original home of the Maya was in northern Mexico, from where they moved south in prehistoric times. This migratory movement was triggered by the settlement... |
| Mongols | What is the history of Mongols? Around the year 1000, the Mongol tribes Kerait and Merkit were converted to Christianity by Nestorian missionaries. Around 1196, Temmujin became prince of the tribe... |
| Oceanic tribes | What migrations did the oceanic peoples make? Oceania is a term describing culturally and economically related islands of the Pacific that make up a continent. They are located on the Australian... |
| Persians | What is the history of the Persians? The Persians were first mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions from the year 843 B.C., when they invaded the northeastern part of Assyria. The Persians, who call... |
| Romani people | Where is the origin of the Roma? The Roma are known by a variety of names: "Zigeuner“ (German), "Gitanes“ (French), "Czigany“ (Hungarian) and "Gypsy“ (English). They are erroneously attributed an... |
| Scythians | What is the history of the Scythians? Their name for themselves is the Sokolotes. They are a people of Iranian descent, originally a nomadic people from the southern steppes of Russia. The... |
| Slavs | Where is the origin of the Slavs? In the lively and by no means concluded discussion about the origin of the Slavs, two completely different research approaches are opposed. Starting from the... |
| Tibetans | Where do the Tibetans come from? The estimated five to six million Tibetan people live on a vast high plateau, a high desert surrounded by wastelands, cold plains and the highest mountain range on... |
| Phoenicians | Where did the Phoenicians live? The heartland of the Phoenician settlement was the landscape Phoenicia, which gives its name was accordingly known in antiquity as Purpleland. The native name of... |
| Indians | What are the peoples of India? India is a multi-ethnic state, whose ethnic diversity is comparable to that of the entire European continent. Approximately 72% of Indians are Indo-Aryans and 25%... |
| Koreans | Where is the origin of Koreans? Archeological finds lead to the inference that Korea was settled approximately 18,000 to12,000 years ago. The original peoples of the peninsula were nomadic tribes... |
| Bantus | Where is the origin of the Bantus? Bantu is the collective term describing more than 400 different ethnic groups in south and middle Africa. The Bantu languages are a sub-group of the Niger-Congo... |
| Turkic peoples | Who are the Turkic peoples? Turkic peoples is a group of about 40 ethnic groups in Central and Western Asia as well as in Siberia and Eastern Europe, whose languages belong to the language family... |
| Sámi people | Where is the origin of the Sámi people? The Saami are probably the oldest inhabitants of Scandinavia and have no Germanic roots. They live in the north from Norway to Sweden, but also in northern... |
| Illyrians | Where does the name Illyrians come from? The term Illyrians is understood differently and used inconsistently. In the period from the beginnings until the collapse of the Illyrian kingdom, the... |
| Vandals | Where is the origin of the Vandals? The Vandals come from northern Jutland, and are therefore a Germanic People. They settled in the delta region of the Oder and Weichsel Rivers and migrated... |
| Balts | What are the Baltic languages? The Baltic languages are usually divided into two groups: - The Eastern Baltic languages: these include Lithuanian, Latvian, Spit Curonian, Latgalian, Selonian,... |
| Macedonians | Who are the Macedonians? The spelling of the name of a nation is ambivalent in German usage. In general, Macedonians and Macedonians (corresponding to Macedonia/Macedonia) are written without... |
| Hellenes | What was the origin of the ancient Greek language? The Greek language is one of the main branches of the Indo-European language family. It evolved from the Indo-European original language,... |
| Huns | Where is the origin of the Huns? The Huns were Central Asian equestrian peoples who lived as nomads, later as semi-nomads. Their homeland was originally the area between the now Kyrgyz Yssykköl... |
| Thracians | Who were the Thracians? "Thracian" (Thrakes) is a Greek collective term based on linguistic and cultural homogeneity for the population of the northern Balkan peninsula from the northern coast of... |
| Finno-Ugric peoples | Where do the Finno-Ugrians live? Most Finno-Ugric ethnic groups, predominantly small and micro-ethnic, are widespread on the territory of Russia. They belong to the macro-grouping of the Uralic... |
| Indo-Europeans | What is Indo-European Studies? In 1816, the German Franz Bopp (1791-1867), in his book "Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleich mit dem dem dem dem der griechischen,... |
Identification of ancient tribes by iGENEA
Various studies demonstrate just how diverse our roots really are, how often and how far abroad our ancestors travelled. Even if our own parents came from the same rural village, it is likely that they had different heritages. While we can differentiate between ancient tribes, this does not establish any ‘races’ or genetically homogenous lineages. You may be Celtic in one lineage, but Germanic in the other. Every lineage has its origins, but our DNA contains the confluence of numerous lineages.
The ancient tribe is determined by the haplogroup and the genetic profile. The result approximately refers to the period from 900 BC to 900 AD.
The interpretation is based on genetic and anthropological studies as well as scientific findings about history, migrations and population development. Additionally we also factor your information about your origin into our analysis. Very young haplogroups whose founder lived in the ancient past can be assigned to one specific ancient tribe. Older haplogroups had already spread over various tribes at this time. Therefore not every profile can be assigned to one special tribe.
Our focus on European origins is all the more exciting, since the Old World provides us with a richness of historical sources greater than that on any other continent. Techniques now available in the science of genetics enable us to re-examine these sources and test their veracity.
Press reports about the origins analysis of iGENEA
- I'm the baby abandoned in the trash (12.08.2021, Mako TV)
- Knowing our origin with DNA analysis (14.02.2020, ProntoPro)
- Knowing our origin with DNA analysis (14.02.2020, ProntoPro)
- Amixem: My original DNA test (15.04.2018, Youtube)
- Genealogy using DNA testing (02.10.2017, Bayerischer Rundfunk)
- The Bülent Ceylan genetic test on RTL (01.01.2017, Die Bülent Ceylan Show, RTL)
- Am I really Swiss? (22.10.2015, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF)
- Hellenic, Viking or Jewish? A Genetic Quest For Our Origins It's in your hands now - igenea (15.12.2013, LE TEMPS - english edition)
- I am related to Ötzi (12.10.2013, 20 Minuten)
- Every second person from Switzerland has the Pharaoh DNA (10.07.2011, 20 Minuten)
- We have all immigrated at one time or another (31.07.2007, Migrosmagazin, PDF 400KB)
This is how the DNA origin analysis works
A Mucus Sample suffices to get a sample of your DNA. Taking the sample is simple and painless and can be done at home. Send the samples with the envelop included in the sampling kit.
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