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Interestingly, there is pretty conclusive evidence in the supplementary data that the Lombards were of Scandinavian origin (particularly Swedish and Norwegian). One of the co-authors spoke about it in this video, also debunking and clearing up some of the misunderstandings. I looked at the...

Foggia, yes. But like you mentioned Tuscanese are usually used as a generic Italian population. They mention a type of Southern European and "Eastern" shift in the Viking Age-Scandinavians in the paper, so I guess the Tuscanese and the Finnish are included as the best proxies for those...

Pretty sure that’s Italians from Tuscany.

Please, not this shit again. I think it's time we stop bringing up Nazis and Nazi ideology in discussing the results from this study. It really has no relevance to the topic at hand, and quite frankly it comes off exceedingly childish and banal when brought up without any good reason for doing...

I completely agree. It's getting rather tiresome with all the politicization, which cannot be denied at this point. Some of the claims made by the media regarding this study have been outright bizarre and should rightly be scrutinized. The strawman made in the press and from some of the...

Didn't see this rather fresh and interesting study posted anywhere. The full paper is available here. Abstract: "Despite the important roles that horses have played in human history, particularly in the spread of languages and cultures, and correspondingly intensive research on this topic, the...

The study itself is fine, but their communication to the press regarding the results has been borderline dishonest in my opinion, and misleading at best.

Yeah, most Scandinavians have some shade of dark blonde or brown hair (or red). Which was the trend among these samples as well, especially in the unmixed samples. They just aren't being reported to the media (except the shocking brown hair I guess :laughing:) because they are not very...

This study has been out in pre-print for a long time. Hardly anything shocking here. It rather clearly states pigmentation-associated alleles were distributed in the same frequency as in modern Scandinavians, except for an elevated polygenic risk-score for black hair. But that score is drawn...

Interesting topic. I think there are also more drug and mental health-related deaths in Northern European countries, with people dying at a very young age, which might skew the statistics slightly.

I think we're talking past each other. I'm not really arguing against the points made by Razib in the article, who I respect by the way. No, the Anglo-Saxons certainly did not replace the Celts and their genetic input is less visible today. Nor am I suggesting all the Germanic-like DNA in...

That particular quote refers to SEE yes, but the general pattern is the same as can be seen here. The AngloSaxon-like ancestry is in red. This doesn't imply that AngloSaxons are the source for all the non-Celtic (red) ancestry, but that it is of a similar origin. I don't think this necessarily...

Actually it's the other way around. The British are on average more Germanic-like than Celtic (I presume you meant Brythonic Celtic as opposed to modern British), while it is the opposite for the Scots, Welsh and Irish. Read this study ("Insular Celtic population structure and footprints of...

Well, you have to remember that hubris is measured from its distance to actual reality. :satisfied: I'm kidding, but I don't think the results would be substantially different. This might be more in the vein of politics, but Sweden does have higher rates of crime, unemployment and a more...

You're very welcome ArchetypeOne. :) No, unfortunately I wasn't able to find anything of the sort. Would be interesting for sure, but I see no mention of haplogroups in the article either. I think this article is only the first in a series of ongoing research-projects on Norwegian DNA, so...

Preprint available here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.20.000299v1.full (can't post hyperlinks due to my low post-count) Abstract: "The aim of the present study was to describe the genetic structure of the Norwegian population using genotypes from 6369 unrelated individuals with detailed...

I believe so too. The modern populations of Norway resemble BB's more than Corded Ware after all, and while that could be partially explained by the later resurgence of farmer ancestry, the case for a Beaker-influence is very strong. I'm more in line with a British BB-origin (maybe even...

Icelanders don't really have as much Celtic DNA as is widely believed. It is higher than in Scandinavia overall, but you are making the rookie-mistake of mistaking Y-DNA for aDNA. A great amount of the maternal lineages are Celtic-derived. But going from autosomal DNA alone, Icelanders are about...

I think by far the most likely explanation is an expansion during the Beaker-period, further strengthened by prehistoric trade and migrations between Norway and the British isles. There was a paper coming out a few years ago about Viking age population genomics which made it clear that Norway...

Funny how laughably wrong this hypothesis was.