RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)This leaves leaves a very misleading suggestion that historical Scandinavians and Finns are descended from these 10,000–11,000 BCE hunter-gatherers. They by and large are not (see my other posts in this thread). And also contrary to your other suggestion they are closely related in both genetics and language to other historical Europeans, especially other northern Europeans.It is quite true the Scandinavians were not conquered by Roman Empire or other Mediterranean peoples, but th ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)These people were the western hunter-gatherers and they were by and large *not* the ancestors of the historical Swedes. The Swedes' ancestors, similar to those of other historical Europeans, came mainly from a mix of eastern European pastoralists -- speakers of proto-Indo-European, the language from which most European languages descend --- and Anatolian farmers. These two groups in turn descended primarily from hunter-gatherers in central Eurasia, not from peoples inside or even ...