Editing Sviatopolk I of Kiev (section)

==Archeological record==
The I-S2077 subclade of [[Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of Europe|Y-DNA]] haplogroup [[Haplogroup I-Z63|I-Z63]] was sampled on an elite warrior buried in [[Bodzia Cemetery]] in a rich burial from ca. 1010-1020 AD. All artefacts there indicate a strong relation to the [[Kievan Rus']] ruling elite, so this man who probably succumbed to combat wounds, was closely related to Sviatopolk. The cemetery in Bodzia is exceptional in terms of Scandinavian and Kievan Rus' links. The Bodzia man (sample VK157, or burial E864/I) was not a simple warrior from the princely retinue, but he belonged to the princely family himself.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Duczko|first=Wladyslaw|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hEawXSP4AVwC|title=Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe|date=2004-01-01|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-13874-2|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sample from Homo sapiens - BioSample - NCBI|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/?term=SAMEA6799933&fbclid=IwAR2ffDWsGEtbJVHFuyAY7WXIv75lMJ4sLW9YlBItsjhUJ4mJjvEjGM071xI|access-date=2020-09-26|website=www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Margaryan|first1=Ashot|last2=Lawson|first2=Daniel J.|last3=Sikora|first3=Martin|last4=Racimo|first4=Fernando|last5=Rasmussen|first5=Simon|last6=Moltke|first6=Ida|last7=Cassidy|first7=Lara M.|last8=Jørsboe|first8=Emil|last9=Ingason|first9=Andrés|last10=Pedersen|first10=Mikkel W.|last11=Korneliussen|first11=Thorfinn|date=September 2020|title=Population genomics of the Viking world|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2688-8|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=585|issue=7825|pages=390–396|doi=10.1038/s41586-020-2688-8|pmid=32939067|bibcode=2020Natur.585..390M|issn=1476-4687|hdl=10852/83989|s2cid=221769227|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

His burial is the richest one in the whole cemetery, and strontium analysis of his tooth enamel shows he was not local. It is assumed that he came to Poland with Sviatopolk, and met a violent death in combat. This corresponds to the events of 1018 AD when Sviatopolk disappeared after having retreated from Kiev to Poland. It cannot be excluded that the Bodzia man was Sviatopolk.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Duczko|first=Wladyslaw|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hEawXSP4AVwC|title=Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe|date=2004-01-01|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-13874-2|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sample from Homo sapiens - BioSample - NCBI|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/?term=SAMEA6799933&fbclid=IwAR2ffDWsGEtbJVHFuyAY7WXIv75lMJ4sLW9YlBItsjhUJ4mJjvEjGM071xI|access-date=2020-09-26|website=www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Margaryan|first1=Ashot|last2=Lawson|first2=Daniel J.|last3=Sikora|first3=Martin|last4=Racimo|first4=Fernando|last5=Rasmussen|first5=Simon|last6=Moltke|first6=Ida|last7=Cassidy|first7=Lara M.|last8=Jørsboe|first8=Emil|last9=Ingason|first9=Andrés|last10=Pedersen|first10=Mikkel W.|last11=Korneliussen|first11=Thorfinn|date=September 2020|title=Population genomics of the Viking world|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2688-8|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=585|issue=7825|pages=390–396|doi=10.1038/s41586-020-2688-8|pmid=32939067|bibcode=2020Natur.585..390M|issn=1476-4687|hdl=10852/83989|s2cid=221769227|hdl-access=free}}</ref>