Using DNA to find Goths

[Michael Erwin]

I don't think purely military identities could have survives the  
defeats of 374-375 or 536-540. I don't think descent-based ones can  
match the personal histories where known. I don't think material- 
cultural ones could have survived the move from the Black Sea steppe  
to the Mediterranean. I don't think religious-ideological ones could  
have survived the conversion.

'Gothic' identity seems much more resilient.




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