New study drills down to the Scandinavian prehistory

 A new study sheds light on the development of Scandinavian settlement from the late Neolithic period to modern times. The research aims to evaluate the genomic results partly also from the perspectives of linguistics and archaeology. The research is so extensive that getting familiar with it takes a lot of time, so I won't even try to draw conclusions here. A few points already at this point. The term East Scandinavian created in the study mainly means the area of Sweden. Its counterweight is southern Scandinavia, mainly meaning the Danish region. The mixing of these areas into modern Scandinavians took place 3000-4000 years ago in southern Scandinavia. On the basis of this, it must be assumed that the migration took place from north to south, which was also brought up in the previous study dealing with the issue. From the point of view of linguistics, the interesting question of where the Scandinavian and Germanic language group was born still remains open, even though the issue is sidestepped cross-disciplinaryly by means of genetics. No more than Eastern Sweden and the Western Baltic can be reached here, and no evidence is presented. From the point of view of Finland, two samples from Ostrobothnia are interestingly found in the new material, which at a quick look look more like Finns, in contrast to previous Sami and Scandinavian type samples from the same area. In itself, the fact that all these genotypes can be found in the same area in Ostrobothnia is not surprising, because the area was the starting point of the eastern trade route of the Scandinavians before it moved to the Gulf of Finland and the Daugava river.