In the view of Co¨ lln it would
be most interesting if people of Slavic origin participated early in
the foundation of the settlement Co¨ lln and therefore also for half
of the later city Berlin. Therefore the two major groups which are
thought to have formed the early inhabitants of Co¨ lln and Berlin
fall directly on the border of genetically well distinguishable
Western-European (Germans) and Eastern European populations
(Slavs) [38]. Several genetic analyses of Slavic speaking groups
such as Polish and Serbian revealed large genetic distance to
German speaking populations [39–41]. This could be also seen for
the two male children D and E, which could be more allocated to
Western European populations and therefore are rather unlikely to
be Slavic origin. It would be interesting to analyses a selected
sample set of the earliest burials in St. Peters graveyard to shed
more light on the so far unanswered question of the contribution of
Slavic population in the foundation of Berlin.