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The rise of farming in late Stone Age Europe was no smooth transition from hunter-gatherer lifestyles but a bloody takeover that saw nomadic populations wiped out by farmer-settlers in a few generations, a new study has found.
The analysis shows that around 5,900 years ago, a farmer population drove out the hunters, foragers, and fishers who had previously populated Scandinavia, and lopped forests to make farmland., and the new study shows that hunter-gatherer DNA was essentially erased, hardly detectable in the genomes of Scandinavia's first farmers.The newcomers carried with them their ancestry from the Yamnaya, a livestock-herding people with origins in southern Russia.
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