{"id":1607,"date":"2019-10-10T20:09:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/130.238.147.106\/jakobssonlab\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:43:44","slug":"dna-and-the-secrets-of-the-battle-axe-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/2019\/10\/10\/dna-and-the-secrets-of-the-battle-axe-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The genomic ancestry of the Scandinavian Battle Axe Culture people and their relation to the broader Corded Ware horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our study on the Battle Axe Culture by Helena Malmstr\u00f6m with others (2019)<\/a> is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study caught the attention of media outlets (“Mysterious ‘Battle Axe Culture’ reveals its secrets thanks to DNA discovery<\/a>“, by James Rogers, Fox News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The skeleton of a male individual associated with the Neolithic Age Battle Axe culture on exhibition in Link\u00f6ping, Sweden (photographer: Jonas Karlsson, \u00d6sterg\u00f6tlands museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The Neolithic period is characterized by major cultural transformations and human migrations, with lasting effects across Europe. To understand the population dynamics in Neolithic Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea area, we investigate the genomes of individuals associated with the Battle Axe Culture (BAC), a Middle Neolithic complex in Scandinavia resembling the continental Corded Ware Culture (CWC). We sequenced 11 individuals (dated to 3330\u20131665 calibrated before common era (cal BCE)) from modern-day Sweden, Estonia, and Poland to 0.26\u20133.24\u00d7 coverage. Three of the individuals were from CWC contexts and two from the central-Swedish BAC burial \u2018Bergsgraven\u2019. By analysing these genomes together with the previously published data, we show that the BAC represents a group different from other Neolithic populations in Scandinavia, revealing stratification among cultural groups. Similar to continental CWC, the BAC-associated individuals display ancestry from the Pontic\u2013Caspian steppe herders, as well as smaller components originating from hunter\u2013gatherers and Early Neolithic farmers. Thus, the steppe ancestry seen in these Scandinavian BAC individuals can be explained only by migration into Scandinavia. Furthermore, we highlight the reuse of megalithic tombs of the earlier Funnel Beaker Culture (FBC) by people related to BAC. The BAC groups likely mixed with resident middle Neolithic farmers (e.g. FBC) without substantial contributions from Neolithic foragers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DNA study sheds new light on the people of the Neolithic Battle Axe Culture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Our study on the Battle Axe Culture by Helena Malmstr\u00f6m with others (2019) is published in the Proceedings of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,12,18,11],"tags":[44,45,25,26,46,41],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","category-in-the-media","category-news","category-publications","category-research","tag-battle-axe-culture","tag-corded-ware","tag-dna","tag-fox-news","tag-genomics","tag-neolithic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}