Recently, the preprint for a massive new study by Morten Allentoft and colleagues went online over at bioRxiv.org. It is a paper full of important and illuminating new data from all over Stone Age Eurasia. However, this article will mainly focus on the new data from Scandinavia. The newly sequenced ancient genomes from Scandinavia are…
Tag: Funnelbeaker culture
The Alvastra pile-dwelling: Farmer-Hunter interactions in Early Middle Neolithic Scandinavia
In 3100 BC, hundreds of years before the first Indo-Europeans would set foot in Scandinavia, two very different groups of people had been maintaining highly contrasting ways of life for at least 400 years. Despite often living in very close proximity to each other. Everything ranging from their spiritualism, to their burials and even diets…
Genetics of the Nordic Bronze Age
Bronze Age Scandinavia. Massive burial mounds full of wealth. Groups of armed men with bronze weapons manning boats. Status-obsessed hierarchical warriors and traders. The likeliest candidates for pre-Proto-Germanic speakers and a proto-Germanic material culture. But who were they, and where did they come from? The people of the Nordic Bronze Age were skilled metalworkers and…