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The first study on the DNA of the ancient inhabitants of Finland has been published, with results indicating that an abundance of genes reached Finland all the way from Siberia.
Genetic material from Siberia has been found in the inhabitants of the Kola Peninsula from as far back as approximately 4,000 years ago, later spreading also to Finland. The study also corroborates the assumption that people genetically similar to the Sámi[*] lived much further south in Finland than today even during the Iron Age.
The genetic samples compared in the study were collected from human bones found in a 3,500-year-old burial place in the Kola Peninsula and the 1,500-year-old lake burial site at Levänluhta in South Ostrobothnia, Finland. All of the samples contained identical Siberian genes.
[...] More information: Thiseas C. Lamnidis et al. "Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe", Nature Communications (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07483-5
The results suggest Bronze Age inhabitants of Finland may have had regular contact with people in Northern Siberia, despite the vast distances separating them.
[*] Wikipedia entry on the Sámi people.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 29 2018, @01:44AM (3 children)
Gonna show we's all bruthas an' sistas... in the whole fuckin' universe... Sheeiiit!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 29 2018, @01:50AM
It also means we're a bunch of inbreds, which would explain why we're so fucking retarded! Yeah! That means all of yous too! We all said "Red, Hammer", so don't try to claim innocence with me..
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @03:27AM (1 child)
Except the Basques? Their language and appearance isn't much like any other group near their current center in the Pyrenees between France and Spain. Not sure if anyone has tried this genetic back-tracing on some of them?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by SvenErik on Thursday November 29 2018, @08:28AM
Apparently, they are a mix of the original local hunter-gatherers that lived there during the last age and the wave of people who brought farming to all of Europe who then later became isolated according to this article in BBC [bbc.com].
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