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Forwarded from Das Volk Des Nordens

https://genomicatlas.org/2022/07/15/from-stone-to-bronze-recent-developments-in-scandinavian-archaeogenetics/

Here is a link to the paper discussed above.

Some of the key takeaways are:

1. Haplogroup I1-M253 (majority subclade DF29) was an almost isolated, nearly extinct, patrilineal haplogroup in Scandinavia during the late Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic in Scandinavia. However, at the end of the Neolithic into the transition of the Bronze Age, I1 exploded into a multitude of new subclades and became the majority and plurality in many regions across Scandinavia, the northern coasts of modern Netherlands, Germany, and Poland, and in western Finland. This expansion can be correlated to a specific clan, family, or even one very prolific man carrying this haplogroup somewhere around Scania, Jutland, and Gothenburg. I1 and I2 are indigenous European haplogroups that have existed since the Aurignacian around 43,000 YBP (41,000 BCE), so I1 in relation to this late Neolithic event shows a suprising survival of the indigenous, fair, far northern (Hyperborean 😊) peoples of Scandinavia, whereas in the rest of Europe most of the indigenous peoples were "genetically replaced" or genocided by the incoming non-European farmers, except in early population of the Balkans where I2 was greatly incorporated to their ranks.

2. Because I1 M253 is tied to the rise of the Nordic Bronze Age culture, and is absent in all other areas and cultures of Europe, I1 can be used as a definitive marker of the genetic movement of Teutonic peoples throughout the ages. Samples from clades of I1 have been positively identified in all major Teutonic migration events from the replacement of the Celts in central Europe, to the Wielbark and Chernyakhov cultures of the Goths, the migrations of the Lombards, the Anglo-Saxon establishement of the English Heptarchy, the Viking Age raids and settlements, and much more. Credence is now absolute that the Teutonic cultures of antiquity were a genetic group of direct stock back to ancient Scandinavia, and their descendants linguistically and culturally are their blood inheritors as a race and ethnic group tied to the same roots.

3. Blondness, extremely fair skin, tall stature, and blue eyes are also tied directly to the expansion of the Teutonic tribes. These traits were not exclusive to the pre-Aryan or Aryan Age peoples of Scandinavia, as they are as common in Finland, the Baltics, and extreme northwest Russia and Belarus then and now, as they are and were in Scandinavia. Rather, fair features are a sign of a high-content, pure lineage of European Hunter Gatherer and Steppe ancestry, lacking a large component or all genetic legacy of the Anatolian Neolithic Farmers (Early European Farmers). These genes were not tied exclusively to the I1 lineages, showing a high degree of synhesis between Aryan invaders and indigenous Scandinavians. The rate of blond and very fair expression genetically increased in the samples where such genes could be observed, alongside the expansion of the Teutonic peoples. This gives a great deal of credence to the understanding of the Gaulish/Celtic phenotypes of central and western Europe, who are described as fair and red or red-gold haired in historical accounts and their legends, but lack a high degree of blondness overall. Red hair by contrast, is directly tied to both pre-Aryan Europeans and to steppe invading Aryans, which would explain the phenotypes of the regions mentioned and phenotypic isolates in the far east of European Russia today.

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