An interdisciplinary team of scientists specializing in biology, archaeology, and history from the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Adam Mickiewicz University has undertaken to resolve a dispute that has been going on for over 200 years concerning the origins of the Western Slavs, including the society of the Piast state.

The results of the research allowed the researchers to formulate a new and, for many, surprising ethnogenesis of the Slavs, competing with both concepts that have been in circulation in the scientific community so far: allochthonous and autochthonous. Prof. Figlerowicz's recent research has also yielded surprising conclusions about the origins of the first rulers of Poland. Is genomics another field of science, alongside archaeology, dendrology, and linguistics, that attempts to bring us closer to historical truth, or is it a game-changer that will force textbooks to be rewritten? 

A meeting from the series “NIH Library: Let's Talk” („Biblioteka NIH : tu się rozmawia”) 

Participants:

• Marek Figlerowicz (Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences)
• Moderator: Dariusz Adamczyk (German Historical Institute in Warsaw)

- Lecture in Polish -