Category: News
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Where do the Scandinavians come from?
Have you ever wondered where Scandinavians came from? Watch a new video from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation about our work […]
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Mattias Jakobsson appointed a Wallenberg Scholar, 2019-24
“The Wallenberg Scholar grant gives me the freedom and the economic means to take on high-risk projects. It really is […]
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The genomic ancestry of the Scandinavian Battle Axe Culture people and their relation to the broader Corded Ware horizon
Our study on the Battle Axe Culture by Helena Malmström with others (2019) is published in the Proceedings of the […]
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Health change with the transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers
Mattias Jakobsson gave a short interview (video on Meta account Evolutionen och du – in Swedish) about the health consequences associated […]
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A new grant from RJ
On October 17th, 2019 Magdalena Fraser received a 3 year research grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project “Gotland in the […]
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Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society
A new phenomenon of constructing distinctive funerary monuments, collectively known as megalithic tombs, emerged around 4500 BCE along the Atlantic […]
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Long-term dietary change in Atlantic and Mediterranean Iberia with the introduction of agriculture: a stable isotope perspective
Rita was part of a study investigating the dietary changes associated with the introduction of agriculture into the Iberian peninsula. The authors […]
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Tales of Human Migration, Admixture, and Selection in Africa
A review article by Carina and Mattias was published in the Annual Reviews, Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, […]
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Investigating Holocene human population history in North Asia using ancient mitogenomes
Members of the group were involved in a study published in the Scientific Reports. Analyses of complete mitochondrial genomes of […]
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Four millennia of Iberian biomolecular prehistory illustrate the impact of prehistoric migrations at the far end of Eurasia
The team was involved in a multidisciplinary study highlighting the temporal genetic changes caused by prehistoric migrations into Iberia. The analyses […]