Saturday, July 25, 2026

Viking sample VK21 once more

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 In my previous post I told about a Viking Age specimen that was found in the Scandinavian city of Aldeigjuborg (Staraya Ladoga in Russian, ...
Sunday, July 5, 2026

New master's thesis publishes Roman Iron Age aDna from Finnish Ostrobothnia.

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The thesis investigates who was buried in Roman Iron Age (0–400 CE) burial cairns on the Ostrobothnian coast and what these individuals can ...
Monday, June 8, 2026

Popgen conference in Vilnius

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 The Popgen conference (-> link ) in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, presents a multidisciplinary presentation of the region's de...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Salme pre-Vikings, more analysis

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 According to my previous post, the pre-Vikings killed and buried with their boats on the west coast of Estonia, in Salme, in 750AD were Swe...
Friday, April 3, 2026

Goths, pre-Vikings and ancient Finns

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 Archaeologically, ancient finds from eastern Poland that were considered Goths turn out to be Swedish.    Link to the study.  The origin o...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Razib Khan's conclusion about Finns and the origin of Germanic languages

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 Razib Khan's almost pathological interest in Finnish culture and heritage has progressed to new, unprejudiced views. Finns came from Ya...
Friday, February 20, 2026

New Russian study sheds light on the early Christian period in Russia

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 A new Russian study ( ->link ) sheds light on the genetic heritage of the medieval population of Russia. Unfortunately, Iron Age samples...