Fig. 3: The kinship structure of the Middle Bronze Age populations from East-Central Europe.

The proposed pedigrees of detected kin groups from Bronze Age cemeteries associated with the Trzciniec culture, asterisk (*) marks instances where more than one interpretation of the detected kinship is possible. The colours correspond to either the collective burials on the plan of the site in which the individuals were interred (in the case of Żerniki Górne) or the skeletal remains within collective burials. The burial photographs were reprinted with permission from Wiley from Juras, A. et al. Mitochondrial genomes from Bronze Age Poland reveal genetic continuity from the Late Neolithic and additional genetic affinities with the steppe populations. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 172, 176–188 (2020); © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc All Rights Reserved.