What is the Genetic Make Up Of Scandinavia
A short video highlighting a study on the genetic history of Scandinavia from 2023.
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[00:00] Introduction: Challenging the Myth of Scandinavian Isolation
[00:30] The Five Key Population Influences
[00:51] Northern Scandinavia: Uralic Ancestry & Assimilation
[01:32] British and Irish Ancestry: The "Backflow" Effect
[02:16] Eastern Baltic Influence: Gotland and Central Sweden
[02:30] Chronology of Admixture: West vs. East Focus
[02:43] Female-Led Gene Flow: Slavery or Alliances?
[03:04] Southwestern European Admixture in the Viking Age
[03:22] The Post-Viking Age Genetic Shift & Decline of Diversity
[04:02] Comparisons to Pre-Viking Hunter-Gatherers
[04:31] Modern Scandinavia: Affinity to Northwestern Europe
[05:08] Conclusion & Future Topics
Source: The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present - ScienceDirect (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science..., 02/08/2025).
Image Credit:
• Linguistic Map of Scandinavia made by Linus Rispling, published on Nordregio (https://nordregio.org/maps/languages-..., 02/08/2025).
• Map of the Anglo-Saxon Migrations: By mbartelsm - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
• Scandinavian Settlement Map By Max Naylor - Own work. An SVG version of this image. Based on the blank Europe map available on the Commons., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index..., 02/08/2025.
• Genetic Map 14,000-9.000 BP By Posth, C., Yu, H., Ghalichi, A. et al. - Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers. Nature 615, 117–126 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05... under CC BY 4.0:"Rights and permissionsOpen Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/....", CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index..., 02/08/2025.