Ancient DNA analysis shows how Scandinavia’s first farmers wiped out hunter-gatherer population
A new study sheds light on Scandinavia’s history of violence, which saw multiple waves of mass murder across Denmark in just 1,000 years. An international team of researchers analyzed DNA samples from about 100 human remains found in southern Scandinavia through a process called shotgun sequencing. These ruins span approximately 7,300 years, from the Mesolithic […]