Killgrove, K. (2025, January 15). "Were the Celts matriarchal? Ancient DNA reveals men married into local, powerful female lineages." Live Science: https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/were-the-celts-matriarchal-ancient-dna-reveals-men-married-into-local-powerful-female-lineages.
Key finding: "To figure out who was buried in the Dorset cemeteries, the researchers first sequenced the buried individuals' genomes. They discovered that 85% of the people were related to one another. Additionally, more than two-thirds of these relatives shared a rare mitochondrial DNA lineage — U5b1 — and Y chromosome diversity was high, meaning most people had the same maternal ancestors but not the same paternal ones." Open Access Source Citation: Cassidy, L.M., Russell, M., Smith, M. et al. Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08409-6 Francis Crick Institute. (2025, January 1). "Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD: Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick Institute." The Francis Crick Institute News and Reports. https://www.crick.ac.uk/news-and-reports/2025-01-01_ancient-dna-unlocks-new-understanding-of-migrations-in-the-first-millennium-ad
Reference: Speidel, L., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe. Nature 637, 118–126 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08275- Ptak, A. (2024, December 29). "Viking remains at medieval burial site in Poland confirmed by DNA testing: Genetic analysis of remains found at a medieval burial site in central Poland has confirmed their Scandinavian origin, marking the first evidence of Viking settlement in that particular Polish region." https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/12/29/viking-remains-at-medieval-burial-site-in-poland-confirmed-by-dna-testing/
Quotation from the article: "Exploration of coastal North America (Helluland, Markland, and Vinland) by the Norse likely resulted in initial full-circle encounters with various Indigenous North American groups across a broad “contact” frontier running from the Canadian Maritimes up to the High Arctic." Click here to read the rest! Dier, A. (2024, October 3). "'Big News' From DNA: Probable Viking, Inuit Encounters: Walruses brought to Europe by the Norse traced to Baffin Bay, home of the Thule Inuit." Newser. https://www.newser.com/story/357258/big-news-from-dna-probable-viking-inuit-encounters.html
Open Access Source Emily J. Ruiz-Puerta et al. ,Greenland Norse walrus exploitation deep into the Arctic.Sci. Adv.10,eadq4127(2024).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adq4127 |
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