Equal in death: Ancient genomic analysis of children’s early Christian burials
DNA from 142 skeletons shows most shared graves held adults and children who were not close relatives, pointing to burial customs over family ties.
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New genetic analyses of ancient collective burial sites have indicated that it was quite uncommon for children and adults buried together in the medieval tombs of Sweden to be biologically related.This has been published in a study by 16 scientists from institutions in Sweden or Turkey and has come to light last Friday in Science Advances magazine.The research provides a new perspective on the multiple burial practices of early Christians and qu…
Children were often buried with adults in medieval Scandinavia. For a long time, researchers believed that they were close relatives. But new Swedish DNA analyses give a completely different picture.
An investigation of bones from graves in Sweden revealed that children and adults buried together were not related. Other factors were more important.
Medieval babies and adults buried together in Sweden were not related, archaeologists discover — raising big questions about early Christian burial practices
Early Christian communities in Sweden often buried children in the same grave with adults, but archaeologists have found that these individuals rarely shared close biological ties, raising the question of how medieval people interred their dead.In a new study, researchers analyzed the DNA of 142 skeletons from three cemeteries in Sweden dating to the 10th to 14th centuries, focusing on collective burials in which two or more people were buried i…
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