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PAGANE
09-19-2020, 05:57 AM
Yesterday, in the journal Nature, the article “Population genomics of the Viking world,” was published by Margaryan, et al, a culmination of 6 years of work.
Just hours later, Science Daily published the article, "The world's largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren't all Scandinavian." Science magazine published “‘ Viking ’was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows.”

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200916113544.htm


Please note that this information will be updated on business days until all samples have been processed and placed on the Y DNA tree – so this will be a “live” copy of the most current phylogenetic information. Link to the locations to see the locations of the excavation sites, and the haplogroups for the tree locations
Enjoy!
https://dna-explained.com/2020/09/18/442-ancient-viking-skeletons-hold-dna-surprises-does-your-y-or-mitochondrial-dna-match-daily-updates-here/?fbclid=IwAR3Wh3m8u5UGAEmJ9J2-VHlKr4rQ0z0EuyopsjTYbFyeMFC-1LI1Yk7esSU