The skull of Porsmose man, found in Denmark, who died a violent death in the Neolithic period.National Museum of Denmark
Posted on 02/17/2024 11:28:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The rise of farming in late Stone Age Europe was no smooth transition from hunter-gatherer lifestyles but a bloody takeover that saw nomadic populations wiped out by farmer-settlers in a few generations, a new study has found.
In fact, twice in just a thousand years, the population of southern Scandinavia was entirely replaced by newcomers to the area, whose remains bear next to no trace of their predecessors in DNA profiles, analyzed by an international team of researchers.
"This transition has previously been presented as peaceful," explains study author and palaeoecologist Anne Birgitte Nielsen of Lund University...
Using a technique called shotgun sequencing, the team analyzed DNA samples from 100 human remains found in Denmark. The remains spanned 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period (or Middle Stone Age when hunter-gatherer lifestyles started to decline), the Neolithic period (or New Stone Age when humans settled into farming life), and the Early Bronze Age...
The analysis shows that around 5,900 years ago, a farmer population drove out the hunters, foragers, and fishers who had previously populated Scandinavia, and lopped forests to make farmland.
Previous research (comparing DNA from a handful of skeletons) had suggested that these first Scandinavian farmers inherited around 30 percent of their genomes from hunter-gatherers, which would mean that their populations mixed – not that one wiped out the other.
Plenty of archeological evidence suggests, instead, that this was a particularly violent time, and the new study shows that hunter-gatherer DNA was essentially erased, hardly detectable in the genomes of Scandinavia's first farmers.
But their dominance was relatively short-lived. The farmers, also known as the Funnelbeaker culture, lived for about another 1,000 years before another wave of new arrivals from the eastern Steppes moved in.
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The skull of Porsmose man, found in Denmark, who died a violent death in the Neolithic period.National Museum of Denmark
Maybe they ate them:
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/unveiling-ancient-rituals-ice-age-cannibalism
Well, ain’t that just too bad.
So they killed the mountain people, and they won their just reward. Now they stood beside the treasure, On the mountain, dark and red. Turned the stone and looked beneath it... "Peace on Earth" was all it said.
The farmers, also known as the Funnelbeaker culture, lived for about another 1,000 years before another wave of new arrivals from the eastern Steppes moved in.
They aren't around anymore either. They died of shame from always being called "Funnelbeakers."
Time for some reparations…
(Explains why, even today, females still have a genetic predisposition to quickly "get over" a deceased husband and "move on" / submit to the new masters. The genetic legacy of those females who were unable / unwilling to submit simply vanished.)
Regards,
“Absorbed” the women from the previous occupiers of the land? Nordic areas. Never let a hot blonde woman go to waste
The narrative will be that the original Scandinavians were a peaceful people of color, genocided by Nordic racists.
It is not the strongest that survive, or those most able to adapt. It’s the most murderous.
No one said that. But it’s true.
In all seriousness, check the mitochondrial DNA, which is passed on through females only. If subsequent populations have mitrocondrial DNA from previous groups, then you know certain females from the previous groups survived
bttt
“ Time for some reparations…”
…yep! That and burn down some businesses after looting them!
had suggested that these first Scandinavian farmers inherited around 30 percent of their genomes from hunter-gatherers,
So what happened to that idea? Did they have 30% or not?
Its not that I am doubting the conclusion and maybe its just the way it was written...
The instinct to protect your food source is a deep and driving one.
I wonder if they were Slavs or closely related.
I would love to see a TV series on the tribes of Europe.
Not in real life.
Women stayed home and took care of their children.
I’m somewhat pop-culture illiterate…
I figured you had quoted that from someone… I had to look it up…
https://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/joni+mitchell/one+tin+soldier_20625953.html
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