Posted on 10/14/2019 8:16:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In 1953, a significant burial site belonging to the Battle Axe Culture was found when constructing a roundabout in Linköping. 4,500 years ago, a man and a woman were buried together with a child, a dog and a rich set of grave goods including one of the eponymous battle axes. "Today, we call this site 'Bergsgraven'. I have been curious about this particular burial for a long time. The collaboration of archaeologists with geneticists allows us to understand more about these people as individuals as well as where their ancestors came from," says archaeogeneticist Helena Malmström of Uppsala University, lead author of the study.
The Scandinavian Battle Axe Culture appears in the archaeological record about 5,000 years ago and archaeologically it resembles the continental European Corded Ware Culture. "The appearance and development of the culture complex has been debated for a long time, especially whether it was a regional phenomenon or whether it was associated with migratory processes of human groups, and -- if the latter -- from where," says osteoarchaeologist Jan Storâ of Stockholm University, one of the senior authors of the study.
By sequencing the genomes of prehistoric individuals from present-day Sweden, Estonia and Poland, the research team showed that the Scandinavian Battle Axe Culture and continental Corded Ware Culture share a common genetic ancestry, which had not been present in Scandinavia or central Europe before 5,000 years ago. "This suggests that the introduction of this new cultural manifestation was associated with movements of people. These groups have a history which we ultimately can trace back to the Pontic Steppe north of the Black Sea," says population geneticist Torsten Günther of Uppsala University, co-lead author of the study.
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Thx txngop.
Luckily, she can’t buffalo the electorate.
/rimshot
Dog domestication was the leash of their worries.
The barriers were probably cultural -- common distant ancestors, but in the interim isolated in some other part of Eurasia -- and language/dialect (ditto), and DNA (ditto). However, if there were intermarriages, the couple would live in one or the other place, and that would be the expressed culture.
Great band!
Exploitation. A kind of child sacrifice. I wonder if she’ll ever figure it out after the world doesn’t end for the 13th time.
Imagine what she’ll be like when she’s sixty! {{{shudder}}}
She produces enough buffalo chips to keep the tribe’s fires burning all winter. :)
I hope to God you don’t try to throw that thing! lol!
:^)
Heck yeah! It has been a while but I used to be pretty good at it.
If the axe blade doesn’t get ya the waffle-face hammer head will! lol
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