The man in grave 54 from the Ajvide Pitted Ware burial ground on Gotland is buried flat on his back, which is typical of Pitted Ware graves. [Göran Burenhult]
Posted on 06/12/2020 8:52:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeological remains have shown that in the middle part the Stone Age, there were at least three different but partially contemporary cultural groups in Sweden. The groups are often called: Funnel Beaker culture, which is associated with Scandinavia's first farmers; Pitted Ware culture, which is mainly linked to fishing and hunting; and Battle Axe culture, which represents a blended culture of herding and farming...
The researchers have analysed DNA from 25 Stone Age individuals from four Pitted Ware culture burial grounds on Gotland. About half of the individuals were buried in typical Pitted Ware culture graves and the other half of the graves showed influences from Battle Axe culture.
To their surprise, the researchers found that none of the individuals were genetically related to people from Battle Axe culture. On the contrary, everyone appeared to belong to a very homogeneous group that demonstrated the most genetic similarity to the hunter-gatherer groups of earlier periods.
"This is a unique study that contributes to our understanding of the interactions between the cultural groups of the Stone Age. We can conclude that people in Pitted Ware culture were influenced by, among others, Battle Axe culture, but because we found no genetic connection between the groups, contact was likely in the form of trade and other means, rather than through migration," says Helena Malmström, archaeogeneticist at Uppsala University and one of the authors of the study.
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The man in grave 54 from the Ajvide Pitted Ware burial ground on Gotland is buried flat on his back, which is typical of Pitted Ware graves. [Göran Burenhult]
Funnel Beaker Culture
Pitted Ware Culture
Battle Axe Culture
Huh.
In Sweden.
“The Battle Axe people are attacking! Sven! You charge them with a funnel! I’ll throw plates at them!”
Mysteriously, only the Battle Axe Culture survived.
Nice sense of humor.
The Battle Axe Culture is associated with the irruption of Indo-European languages into Europe.
As in Homer calling Agamemnon, onax anthropwn (lord of men). The 'onax' is 'wonax' in Mycenean Greek. 'Wo' = war, 'ax' = 'axe'. 'Bearer of the war axe' is a more literal translation, but it was probably remembered only as an honorific by Homer's time.
Hillary is Swedish?
The Funnel Cake Culture by contrast thrived by catering chariot shows.
He’s dead, Jim.
The rest of the "Corded Ware Culture" keyword, chrono:
Or very, very sleepy.
>> Funnel Beaker culture, which is associated with Scandinavia’s first farmers
You’d be surprised about the number of Scandinavian funnel cake bakers on the boardwalk’s of New Jersey. They also scavenge for earnings at the nearby taffy shops. A beautiful blond-haired, blue-eyed species...
Not to mention the hanky panky effect, a well known phenomenon among humans.
Heh, even if it didn’t work, they’d have had no way of knowing it wasn’t going to, so...
“DNA increases our understanding of contact between Stone Age cultures”
Stone Age hookups.
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