The skull of a woman excavated from the Kanaljorden site in southern Sweden.CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, FREDRIK HALLGREN
The first humans to arrive in Europe, some 45,000 years ago, were hunter-gatherers who were joined by farmers from the Near East about 7,500 years ago. But the genomes of present-day Europeans suggest a third wave of migrants also added to the genetic mix. Now, a study of both modern and ancient DNA has found evidence to suggest that ancient northern Eurasians migrated to Europe after the advent of farming. The results were published last week (September 18) in Nature.
An international team of researchers, led by investigators at Harvard Medical School and the University of Tübingen in Germany, sequenced the genomes of nine ancient humans from the remains of hunter-gatherers who lived in Luxembourg and Sweden about 7,000 to 8,000 years ago, as well ...
