Teeth from male individual from the site of Gjerrild (Rise 73a)
Credit: Marie Louise Jørkov
Posted on 08/22/2019 7:07:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The 2nd and 3rd millennia BC are known to have been a period of significant migrations in western Europe, including the movement of steppe populations into more temperate regions. Starting around 1600 BC, southern Scandinavia became closely linked to long-distance metal trade elsewhere in Europe, which gave rise to a Nordic Bronze Age and a period of significant wealth in the region of present-day Denmark...
Frei and colleagues... examined skeletal remains of 88 individuals from 37 localities across present-day Denmark. Since strontium isotopes in tooth enamel can record geographic signatures from an early age, analysis of such isotopes was used to determine individuals' regions of provenance. Radiocarbon dating was used to determine the age of each skeleton and physical anthropological analyses were also conducted to add information on sex, age and potential injuries or illness.
From c. 1600 BC onwards, around the beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age, the geographic signal of migrants became more varied, an indication that this period of economic growth attracted migrants from a wide variety of foreign locales, possibly including more distant regions. The authors suggest this might reflect the establishment of new cultural alliances as southern Scandinavia flourished economically. They propose that further study using ancient DNA may further elucidate such social dynamics at large scales.
Co-author Kristian Kristiansen...: "Around 1600 BC, the amount of metal coming into southern Scandinavia increased dramatically, arriving mostly from the Italian Alps, whereas tin came from Cornwall in south England. Our results support the development of highly international trade, a forerunner for the Viking Age period." ...
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Teeth from male individual from the site of Gjerrild (Rise 73a)
Credit: Marie Louise Jørkov
I think the Danes should be required to live as they did in the bronze age. After all, their way of life would be destroyed if they were allowed to modernize.
(Isn’t that the argument put forward for preserving the way of life of the Greenlanders?)
They should have traded Greenland for Puerto Rico
People heard about how great the ham and cheese was up there.
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