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Gotland hunter-gatherer graves hint at how Stone Age families organized
DNA analysis of four graves at Ajvide shows kinship beyond immediate family shaped burial practices among Scandinavian Neolithic hunter-gatherers, researchers say.
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Gotland hunter-gatherer graves hint at how Stone Age families organized
A woman was buried with two children, but they were not her own. In another grave, two children were placed. They were not siblings and were more distantly related, perhaps cousins. In a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers at Uppsala University have clarified family relationships in four graves from a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer culture at Ajvide on Gotland. DNA analyses suggest that…
The fourth grave in Ajvide. Photo: Johan Norderäng A woman was buried with two children, but they were not her own. In another grave were two children who were not siblings, but rather cousins. Researchers at Uppsala University have mapped the kinship in four graves from a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer culture at Ajvide on Gotland. The DNA analyses indicate that the population had a good knowledge of family lines… Source
DNA reveals extended hunter-gatherer family ties in 5,500-year-old Stone Age graves on Gotland
A 5,500-year-old cemetery on Gotland is offering a close look at family life among one of the last hunter-gatherer groups in northern Europe. Researchers studied graves at Ajvide, a major site linked to the Pitted Ware Culture. These people lived by hunting seals and fishing along the Baltic coast long after farming had spread across […]
A research team from Uppsala University has managed to unravel the family relationships of individuals buried approximately 5,500 years ago in the Ajvide site on the Swedish island of Gotland, thanks to ancient DNA analysis. The results challenge common assumptions about the links in multiple burials of cultures [...]
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