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Steppe Ancestry in Western Eurasia and the Spread of the Germanic Languages

2024-03-14

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<h4>Summary</h4> Today, Germanic languages, including German, English, Frisian, Dutch and the Nordic languages, are widely spoken in northwest Europe. However, key aspects of the assumed arrival and diversification of this linguistic group remain contentious 1–3 . By adding 712 new ancient human genomes we find an archaeologically elusive population entering Sweden from the Baltic region by around 4000 BP. This...

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Literature Corpus work: 3a81634e-07ef-5bee-a034-9d017c5fb65d
DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.13.584607

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