Lisa Eirene

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The remains belonged to farmers who inhabited the northernmost parts of Europe. They lived in small settlements consisting of dispersed farmsteads, so it is remarkable to find a mass grave with that number of people. When the sample was analyzed in a laboratory, it became clear that the ancestry of the people in the tomb was about half Neolithic European Farmers and half the pre-existing hunter-gatherer population. But their cause of death remained unknown.
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