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The Y-DNA is N-Y4339, considered a Rurik ancestral line: https://rurik.se/wp-content/uploads/Genetic_study_of_the_Rurik_Dynasty.pdf It is a rich Migration age burial of a warrior that may have been in Roman service.

The female sal002 found in a boat burial in Sala in central Sweden from the Late Viking period represents an interesting case.30 She appears fully British-Irish in ancestry, and the character of her burial indicates that she probably had a high social status in the community that buried her.31...

The distribution of haplytypes, to complement kingjohn’s post.

“at least tentative evidence that gene flow into Scandinavia of eastern Baltic ancestry and, to a lesser extent, also British-Irish ancestry was female biased. We also observe direct evidence for gene flow from the British-Irish Isles through males, in the form of two Late Vikings (VK31 and...

It’s surprising that viking-age Gotland and South Sweden were very un-Swedish-like, in contrast to central Sweden. Gotland was all Finnish/Lithunaian-like (just 1 sample though). At the same time pre-Viking Denmark was Swedish-like and very diverse like South Sweden during Viking times.

The article on the origins of pottery: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/modelling-the-diffusion-of-pottery-technologies-across-afroeurasia-emerging-insights-and-future-research/1085C3DD5DADB0E15056C2A31AAABF81 Abstract Where did pottery first appear in the Old...

Link to the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01491-8

The authors postulate that HG pottery was invented in East Asia and spread very rapidly (300-400 years from Urals to Baltic), probably independently of population movements. “Notably, this is several times faster than the spread of Neolithic pottery from the Middle East into the Mediterranean...

AbstractHuman history has been shaped by global dispersals of technologies, although understanding of what enabled these processes is limited. Here, we explore the behavioural mechanisms that led to the emergence of pottery among hunter-gatherer communities in Europe during the mid-Holocene...

Apparently the Glasgow work was built on success in Boston and Cincinnati. There is a bunch of case studies at https://popcenter.asu.edu/content/pop-projects See also the awards collections linked from there.

Doggerland, can you compare to the genotypes of the chimpanzee?

This was often the case both naturally and systematically, but the preservation of minority cultures has been in focus since 1840s and even more so during the past few decades. Catalonia is one of the recent examples. Irish has been rejuvenated since Ireland’s independence a century ago...

See here on something that appears to have worked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Reduction_Unit and some situation description on Glasgow at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_Kingdom#Glasgow

Law enforcement and systematic rooting out of criminal behaviour. Going after the leaders and also making sure there is a program of rehabilitation and job creation. Activities for young people like ball courts, local competitions etc. With security cameras getting ever cheaper and more...

Interesting. Belarusian in Belarus is vulnerable… As is Basque. Irish, Yiddish (Belarus), Romani (Romania) are endangered… You didn’t notice a map of thriving regional languages by any chance? Catalan might be an example.

One hears much more about such crazy people in the US than in Europe. I wonder if that’s a sign that universal healthcare would be able to help even extremely disadvantaged people and in the US they are just left to cope… which they cannot. Now thinking how a criminal/vigilante organization...

I cannot think of any big cities in Europe or US without that smell of urine around the party locales… Small value shoplifting is not a crime in many places, but a misdemeanor. Spain for example has a 400€ limit. For the US, the limits were thus in 2017...

One should also consider the variance in reporting crime to the authorities. There is research on that - see https://wp.unil.ch/icvs/ Car theft rate is probably safer in that respect, because you would want to take a stolen car off the register. Even there, the average reporting rate is only...

As you said, the perfect system :) Happiness in the society is extremely high. Making sure everyone is fed, healthy and has a basic education does create a stable society. And children take public transport alone to go to school. As to flaunting the wealth, people do that. The world’s best...

The timeline since the middle ages was the default, to get the clearer picture I actually zoomed in to recent times. Feel free to read the original study. I know of no countrywide statistics that would exclude a type of criminals. Why would they?