The Megalith Farmers of Falbygden

On the limestone plateau of Falbygden, Neolithic farmers raised hundreds of passage graves: chambered tombs of megalithic slabs where generations of the same families were laid together over centuries. The dead of Frälsegården were such a kindred: parents, children and cousins of the Funnel Beaker world, tillers of some of Sweden's first fields. Their bones record both a farming society organised around kinship and, in one young man, the earliest known victim of the plague bacterium, millennia before the Black Death.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society.

Every Ancestry Map includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because these are a small group of real individuals, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances. That is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that the Megalith Farmers of Falbygden are your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about Ancestry Map, the full Global25 report.

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  Who were the Megalith Farmers of Falbygden?

  The Megalith Farmers of Falbygden (c. 3300-2800 BCE, Gökhem, Falbygden, Sweden) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 12 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society".

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  What does "matching" the Megalith Farmers of Falbygden mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No, and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the Megalith Farmers of Falbygden?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestry Map, never sold separately. Order Ancestry Map, our Global25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

The catalog holds every published entry across three tiers. Browse the full Notable Matches directory. Nearby entries:

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