Posted on 02/17/2024 11:28:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The rise of farming in late Stone Age Europe was no smooth transition from hunter-gatherer lifestyles but a bloody takeover that saw nomadic populations wiped out by farmer-settlers in a few generations, a new study has found.
In fact, twice in just a thousand years, the population of southern Scandinavia was entirely replaced by newcomers to the area, whose remains bear next to no trace of their predecessors in DNA profiles, analyzed by an international team of researchers.
"This transition has previously been presented as peaceful," explains study author and palaeoecologist Anne Birgitte Nielsen of Lund University...
Using a technique called shotgun sequencing, the team analyzed DNA samples from 100 human remains found in Denmark. The remains spanned 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period (or Middle Stone Age when hunter-gatherer lifestyles started to decline), the Neolithic period (or New Stone Age when humans settled into farming life), and the Early Bronze Age...
The analysis shows that around 5,900 years ago, a farmer population drove out the hunters, foragers, and fishers who had previously populated Scandinavia, and lopped forests to make farmland.
Previous research (comparing DNA from a handful of skeletons) had suggested that these first Scandinavian farmers inherited around 30 percent of their genomes from hunter-gatherers, which would mean that their populations mixed – not that one wiped out the other.
Plenty of archeological evidence suggests, instead, that this was a particularly violent time, and the new study shows that hunter-gatherer DNA was essentially erased, hardly detectable in the genomes of Scandinavia's first farmers.
But their dominance was relatively short-lived. The farmers, also known as the Funnelbeaker culture, lived for about another 1,000 years before another wave of new arrivals from the eastern Steppes moved in.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
They didn’t learn not to invite Immigrants to Sweden. They are having the same problem today.
A group of farmers is always larger then a group of HG's because farming allows you to have more people on a smaller amount of land.
So 30% to 70% would be about the right mix.
In the late 1960s, I knew Native Americans were NOT Peaceful. In 5th grade, we were told of King Philip’s War.
Wait, Vikings were blacks? Unless the BLACK VIKING were about black Minnesota Vikings!! 🤓
Learn to spell, troll.
So THAT’s why they got the name “Caucasians.”
The Fight of Indigenous People in the Nordic countries
Sami People: Religion, Beliefs, and Deities
Pictured are Saami people between 1900 and 1920. The Saami are the indigenous people of Scandinavia and live in the Arctic parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in an area recognised as Sapmi
Don’t spoil the fantasy
Modern Nordic warriors. Real women unlike the mutant American counterparts
Interesting ancestry map, along with comment 24.
Got it thanks.
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