Articles
3 articles on North Sea, ancient-DNA research written up for readers who want the evidence, not just the headline.
Belgium holds one of Europe's oldest sequenced genomes, sits at the meeting point of the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker worlds, and was cut in two by a language line that its genes barely notice. What ancient DNA shows about Belgian ancestry, Flanders against Wallonia, and how to read a Belgian genome.
The Netherlands sits at the heart of the Beaker world and the launch coast of the Anglo-Saxon migration. What ancient DNA shows about Dutch ancestry, the country's surprising internal cline, and how to read a Dutch genome.
A 460-genome study reveals large North Sea migration, local integration and regional ancestry change in Early Medieval England.