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This study is very important. Why?The most important part of the study imo is the fact that ancient dna can be recovered from chewed birch pitch, and how to recover it.
That's great.
The other interesting information was in what they ate, the diseases they suffered from, and the viruses and bacteria they carried.
The Epstein Barr virus is horrible for people whose immune response it permanently heightens, leading to all sorts of debilitating and sometimes lethal diseases like MS, lupus, etc.
Interesting they had so much tooth decay, given we were told so often that only came about with the Neolithic and consumption of starches.
In actuality, for these people it was probably all the hazelnuts they ate, which was also the case for some hunter-gatherers in North Africa according to a paper which came out a few days ago. I'm sure the hunter-gatherers in the Levant, with all the wild growing grain and lots of bees for honey, might have had more than their share as well.
This study is very important. Why?
Interesting they had so much tooth decay, given we were told so often that only came about with the Neolithic and consumption of starches.
In actuality, for these people it was probably all the hazelnuts they ate, which was also the case for some hunter-gatherers in North Africa according to a paper which came out a few days ago. I'm sure the hunter-gatherers in the Levant, with all the wild growing grain and lots of bees for honey, might have had more than their share as well.
The fact that a Scandinavian hunter-gatherer is WHG should not be earth shattering news for anyone, should it?
Well, its a little bit interesting. The subject seems to be nearly 100 % WHG. No admixture with Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherers. Also lacks Farmer DNA although both the location and time period is within the Funnelbeaker culture area. We also seem to be within the time frame of the Atlantic Megalith culture, although I am not sure if Scandinavia was quite there on it yet. We just had a paper showing that the Y-chromosomes of the Megalith builders were WHG in origin, and that the DNA showed a more male-dominated WHG gene transfer -except in Scandinavia.
I also got the impression that this was a fairly large site. Its food for speculation if nothing else.
EDIT: Also seems within the WHG resurgence period.
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