Viking sample VK21 once more

 In my previous post I told about a Viking Age specimen that was found in the Scandinavian city of Aldeigjuborg (Staraya Ladoga in Russian, Laatokanlinna in Finnish) on Lake Ladoga in Russia. So I traced the origin of the Viking Age specimen VK21 to the Iron Age site of Eura in southwestern Finland. The tracing data was found in the study (->link)

This is special because no human auDna sample has been found in this largest Iron Age cemetery in Finland so far (dogs' auDna has been extracted though).

According to linguistics and archaeology, the settlement and spoken language came to southwestern Finland (and Eura) across the sea from Estonia about 1700 years ago. Thus, local settlement in southwestern Finland had time to flourish for about 600 years by the time the Viking Age came and to differentiate into a local one. During that time and onwards to the present day, settlement in both Estonia and Finland mixed with its neighbours, in Finland with Scandinavians and Sámi, in Estonia mainly with Baltic language speakers. Indeed, in the PCA analysis. VK21 is located in the place I assumed.