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Bell Beakers and the replacement of the megalith builders in Western Europe
Starting around 4800 BC, a new cultural horizon had begun to become dominant in Western Europe. Massive stones were used to construct burial sites, monuments and religious sites. Some of the most...
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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...
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Human height in prehistoric Europe
Throughout the history and prehistory of Europe, the average height of its inhabitants has gone up and down many times. The reasons for this are many. Some of the more obvious examples being diet,...
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The genetic origins of the Polynesians
The Polynesian voyagers were undoubtedly some of the greatest sailors and navigators the world has ever seen. Using star signs, trade winds, ocean currents and even signs of animals in order to detect...
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Jōmon and Yayoi: the dual genetic origins of the Japanese
The island nation of Japan has a long and rich history that includes periods of relative isolation from the rest of the world. With the start of the Heian period in 794 AD, a distinct and unique...
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The Alvastra pile-dwelling: Farmer-Hunter interactions in Early Middle...
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...
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Tibeto-Burman expansions: high-altitude adaptation and Paleolithic legacy on...
Humans have been living at extreme altitudes for a very long time. However, only a very small percentage of the planet’s population inhabit such places. Today, the largest communities of high-altitude...
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From Stone to Bronze in prehistoric Scandinavia
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...
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Genetic variation during the Three Kingdoms period in Korea
While the genetic history of Japan has been studied rather extensively in recent years, ancient remains from the neighboring Korean peninsula have remained almost completely unsampled until 2022....
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The genetic origin of the Goths
The Goths, an East Germanic people best known for being fierce adversaries of the Roman Empire, are mentioned in numerous ancient sources and played an important role in European history during the...
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