Ancient Eastern Europe and Baltic DNA Analysis
From forest foragers to river kingdoms
Compare your DNA with ancient reference individuals from Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Moldova, and the northwestern forest zone. Results describe statistical genetic similarity across forager, farming, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and medieval contexts, not proof of direct descent.
On the shores of Lake Onega in Russian Karelia, one of northeastern Europe's most important Mesolithic cemeteries preserved burials that still shape how scientists understand Eastern European hunter-gatherer ancestry, a genetic component still detectable across the region today.
In the eastern Baltic, the cemetery at Zvejnieki in Latvia stayed in continuous use for millennia, spanning the Mesolithic through the Neolithic and into the Corded Ware period, making it a cornerstone site for the region's deep population history. On the Dnieper river in Ukraine, the Sredny Stog culture at Dereivka connects the Copper Age steppe to debates over early horse domestication, while Bronze Age communities on the Daugava at Kivutkalns developed distinctive Baltic metalworking traditions.
Iron Age river-confluence strongholds like Santok in Poland controlled strategic trade routes for centuries, and the amber that moved along Baltic trade corridors reportedly travelled as far as Mycenaean Greece and Egypt. In the early Viking Age, the ship burials at Salme on the Estonian island of Saaremaa reshaped understanding of raiding networks on the Baltic Sea before the conventional start of the Viking Age.
By the 8th and 9th centuries, Norse settlers and traders founded river towns like Staraya Ladoga and Gnezdovo, linking the Baltic to Byzantium along the Volkhov and Dnieper trade routes that gave rise to the Rus' state, while island strongholds such as Ostrów Lednicki anchored the early Polish state. From forest-zone foragers to medieval Rus traders, these reference samples let your report measure how closely your DNA resembles each period.
Pine, amber, and river ice kept the record. Your report compares your DNA with it, one reference population at a time.
Hunter-gatherer communities of the boreal forest and Baltic lake country, including the Lake Onega cemetery of Yuzhny Oleniy Ostrov.
Early farming and Comb Ceramic communities across the eastern Baltic, documented at the long-used Zvejnieki cemetery.
Copper Age steppe and forest-edge herders, connected to the Sredny Stog culture debates on early horse domestication at Dereivka.
Bronze Age Baltic-speaking communities, including the Daugava valley metalworkers of Kivutkalns and the wider amber trade routes.
Iron Age forest-zone and Baltic populations who controlled strategic river-confluence strongholds like Santok.
Migration Period and early Slavic communities, alongside the early Viking Age ship burials at Salme on Saaremaa.
Medieval river-trade centres like Staraya Ladoga and Gnezdovo, and early state strongholds such as Ostrów Lednicki.
Not just percentages. A journey into your genetic similarity to the peoples of ancient Eastern Europe and the Baltic.
We scan your autosomal DNA in short segments and compare each one against every ancient Eastern European and Baltic genome using identical-by-state (IBS) segment matching, weighting longer, rarer shared segments more heavily.
A panel-specific 0-100 statistical similarity score weighting shared-segment evidence at 50%, ADMIXTURE distance at 31.25%, and Monte Carlo fit at 18.75%. It is not an ancestry percentage or proof of direct descent.
The fixed regional ADMIXTURE reference panel defines stable PCA axes; your kit is projected afterward without moving the reference samples.
See the real archaeological sites where your genetic matches were discovered, from the Lake Onega forager cemeteries to the river-trade towns of the Rus.
Your genetic affinity to each era: Mesolithic, Neolithic, Copper Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Migration Period, and Medieval, all quantified.
Meet the ancient individual whose DNA is most similar to yours. Learn their era and their place in the history of Eastern Europe and the Baltic.
Our AI assistant provides personalized explanations of your results, placing your genetic connections in historical and archaeological context.
Discover connections to specific areas: the Baltic coast, the Polish river basins, the Dnieper valley, and the northwestern forest zone of Russia.
Find ancient Eastern European and Baltic individuals who share your mtDNA maternal or Y-DNA paternal lineage, a shared lineage branch traced through hundreds of generations.
Understand whether your strongest signal traces to the earliest forest-zone foragers, the Comb Ware farmers, the Corded Ware herders, or later Iron Age and Rus populations.
Connect with real excavated sites like Zvejnieki, Dereivka, the Salme ship burials, and the Rus river-trade centres of Staraya Ladoga and Gnezdovo.
Your report includes an interactive map showing the exact archaeological sites across Eastern Europe and the Baltic where your genetic matches were discovered.
Explore the map preview below, or search the complete reference panel in the table. Genetic similarity to these individuals does not mean they are your real ancestors.
Map preview This map shows a preview of 150 of 1200 reference individuals used in this report. Search the complete list in the table below.
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AI-generated artistic reconstruction, not a photograph of the individual.
These portraits are AI-generated artistic interpretations, not photographs. The archaeological samples behind them are real, recovered from burial sites across Eastern Europe and the Baltic, their DNA preserved across millennia.
33685 BCE - 31328 BCE
3911 BCE - 3650 BCE
5500 BCE - 2900 BCE
7050 BCE - 5950 BCE
6633 BCE - 6470 BCE
787 BCE - 541 BCE
2891 BCE - 2674 BCE
900 CE - 1100 CE
Ancient DNA, modern analysis. Advanced algorithms, transparent results.
We scan your autosomal DNA in short segments and compare each one against every ancient Eastern European and Baltic genome using identical-by-state (IBS) segment matching, weighting longer, rarer shared segments more heavily.
Advanced ADMIXTURE algorithms compare your genetic profile against reference populations across ancestral components, providing exceptional resolution for Ancient Eastern European and Baltic genetic similarity analysis.
The fixed regional ADMIXTURE reference panel defines stable PCA axes; your kit is projected afterward without moving the reference samples.
Monte Carlo simulation methods provide robust statistical estimates of your genetic similarity to Eastern Europe and the Baltic with confidence intervals.
Our reference panel includes samples from Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, and the northwestern forest zone of Russia, spanning over 10,000 years of history.
All ancient DNA samples come from peer-reviewed academic publications, with full citations and links provided in your report. Science you can trust.
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Illustrative examples of report output, not your personal results. See what awaits you in your personalized Ancient Eastern Europe and the Baltic report.
View Sample ReportOne similarity score built from three kinds of evidence, with every component shown in the report.
Similarity to reference individuals from each era, from earliest to latest.
Cultures
Regions
Which archaeological cultures and present-day regions your closest reference individuals come from.
Ancient individuals on the same maternal or paternal lineage branch, each labelled by the kind of evidence linking them to you.
Notable sites where reference samples were excavated, with historical context and periods of use.
Reference-fixed PCA chart: the Ancient Eastern Europe & Baltic reference panel defines the axes, and your sample is projected onto them.
All figures above are illustrative example values, not your results. Every report also includes print, CSV export and a shareable summary card.
Figures shown are illustrative examples, not a real person's results.
Measure your genetic similarity to 900 ancient reference individuals from the forests, amber coasts, and river valleys of Eastern Europe and the Baltic.
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