Scandinavians are descended from Stone Age immigrants

PhysOrg ^ | 9-24-09

[Dysart]

PhysOrg.com) -- Today's Scandinavians are not descended from the people who came to Scandinavia at the conclusion of the last ice age but, apparently, from a population that arrived later, concurrently with the introduction of agriculture. This is one conclusion of a new study straddling the borderline between genetics and archaeology, which involved Swedish researchers and which has now been published in the journal Current Biology.

"The hunter-gatherers who inhabited Scandinavia more than 4,000 years ago had a different gene pool than ours," explains Anders Götherström of the Department of Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University, who headed the project together with Eske Willerslev of the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen.

The study, a collaboration among research groups in Sweden, Denmark and the UK, involved using DNA from Stone Age remains to investigate whether the practices of cultivating crops and keeping livestock were spread by immigrants or represented innovations on the part of hunter-gatherers.

[JennysCool]

Skol! ... Err, ping, that is!

[Paladin2]

Pure Aryan Stock?

[Buckeye McFrog]

makes sense...I don’t think anybody would have wanted to ride out the Ice Age in Sweden

[Spirochete]

The hunter-gatherers who inhabited Scandinavia more than 4,000 years ago had a different gene pool than ours,"

Were they related to the Sami?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The Finns only got to the neighborhood about 2500 years ago. It used to be thought they were related to the Sami. I think that they don’t believe that anymore, except for interbreeding of course.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It is not surprising, everyone knows that the Cro-Magnons are not related to the later Indo-Europeans, including the Scandinavians.

[Diver Dave]

Uff Da!

[Freedom4US]

Are there any drunk geologists on FR??? The ice age *sucked*, my home state happened to be covered in ice 12,000 years ago, global warming trends actually make life easier, not more expensive. Crikey.

[SunkenCiv]

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