Posted on 03/02/2019 1:21:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Researchers from the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Helsinki have analyzed the first ancient DNA from mainland Finland. As described in Nature Communications, ancient DNA was extracted from bones and teeth from a 3,500 year-old burial on the Kola Peninsula, Russia, and a 1,500 year-old water burial in Finland. The results reveal the possible path along which ancient people from Siberia spread to Finland and Northwestern Russia.
Researchers found the earliest evidence of Siberian ancestry in Fennoscandia in a population inhabiting the Kola Peninsula, in Northwestern Russia, dating to around 4,000 years ago. This genetic ancestry then later spread to populations living in Finland. The study also found that people genetically similar to present-day Saami people inhabited areas in much more southern parts of Finland than the Saami today.
For the present study, genome-wide genetic data from 11 individuals were retrieved. Eight individuals came from the Kola Peninsula, six from a burial dated to 3,500 years ago, and two from an 18th to 19th century Saami cemetery.
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another one of yours, from the FRchives:
Where Do The Finns Come From?
Sydaby | Christian Carpelan
Posted on 09/26/2007 10:49:43 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1902550/posts
"Roman Baltic" keyword:
Sicilian amber in western Europe pre-dates arrival of Baltic amber by at least 2,000 years
EurekAlert! | August 29, 2018 | University of Cambridge
Posted on 09/02/2018 2:13:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3684288/posts
IIRC, in My Fair Lady Professor Higgins’ linguistic rival definitively concluded that Liza was Hungarian!
Garrrrn!
That’s why linguists refer to Finno-Ugric languages.
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