They're counting on you not having read the article.

It's trash: it's a study on 38 people from two sites, one of which was Roman and the other may have been under a Gothic bishop's oversight.

To learn more about who the Goths were, Stamov and his colleagues sequenced the genomes of 38 people from two sites in Bulgaria. They say both can be identified as Gothic by characteristic beads and jewellery, burial practices and skull modifications.

Near a palace called the Aul of Khan Omurtag, there was a necropolis that seems to have been part of a Gothic bishop’s ecclesiastical see, dating from about AD 350 to 489. The site has been tentatively linked to an early Gothic Christian bishop called Wulfila or Ulfilas.

They also took samples from an older site, the Aquae Calidae necropolis, from about 320 to 375. This was a Roman healing centre and bath house, not a cemetery, but there were multiple bodies buried there. “One of the samples had artificial skull deformation, which is not typical for Roman times and speaks of a different culture,” says Stamov.

People from the two sites were markedly different genetically, but both groups showed a mix of ancestries. The peoples were descended from populations as far afield as Scandinavia, the Caucasus, the Levant, Anatolia (modern Turkey), East Asia (modern Mongolia), Egypt and sub-Saharan Africa. “It’s an extremely diverse community,” says Stamov.

A key factor may have been the importance of Arianism, an early version of Christianity. “It’s very welcoming to anybody,” says team member Todor Chobanov at the Institute for Balkan Studies and Center of Thracology in Sofia, Bulgaria. “Anybody could be an Arian Christian.”

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The ideas that Goths were “complex and diverse” and that “people didn’t have a one-to-one tie between ancestry and ethnic identity” are good ones, says James Harland at the University of Bonn in Germany. However, he says the team has not sequenced enough genomes to have a good sampling. He also argues that you cannot reliably infer a person’s ethnicity from their artefacts, so the presence of seemingly Gothic artefacts doesn’t mean the people in the graves were really Goths.