Scandinavian hunter-gatherer

Genetic ancestry of hunter-gatherers in Europe between 14 ka and 9 ka, with the main area of Scandinavian hunter-gatherers (SHG) in yellow. Individual numbers correspond to calibrated sample dates.[1]

In archaeogenetics, the term Scandinavian hunter-gatherer (SHG) is the name given to a distinct ancestral component that represents descent from Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of Scandinavia.[a][3][4] Genetic studies suggest that the SHGs were a mix of western hunter-gatherers (WHGs) initially populating Scandinavia from the south during the Holocene, and eastern hunter-gatherers (EHGs), who later entered Scandinavia from the north along the Norwegian coast. During the Neolithic, they admixed further with Early European Farmers (EEFs) and Western Steppe Herders (WSHs). Genetic continuity has been detected between the SHGs and members of the Pitted Ware culture (PWC), and to a certain degree, between SHGs and modern northern Europeans.[b] The Sámi, on the other hand, have been found to be completely unrelated to the PWC.[c]

  1. ^ Posth, Cosimo; Yu, He; Ghalichi, Ayshin (March 2023). "Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers". Nature. 615 (7950): 117–126. Bibcode:2023Natur.615..117P. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05726-0. hdl:10256/23099. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 9977688. PMID 36859578.
  2. ^ Kashuba 2019.
  3. ^ Eisenmann 2018.
  4. ^ Manninen, Mikael A.; Damlien, Hege; Kleppe, Jan Ingolf; Knutsson, Kjel; Murashkin, Anton; Niemi, Anja R.; Rosenvinge, Carine S.; Persson, Per (April 2021). "First encounters in the north: cultural diversity and gene flow in Early Mesolithic Scandinavia". Antiquity. 95 (380): 310–328. doi:10.15184/aqy.2020.252. hdl:10037/21829. ISSN 0003-598X.
  5. ^ Günther et al. 2018.
  6. ^ Malmström 2009.


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