DA234 Levanluhta 23andme Format

The Levanluhta site in western Finland, dating to the Iron Age, provides valuable insights into the lives of the prehistoric inhabitants of the region. Located near the village of Levanluhta in the municipality of Isokyrö, the site is primarily known for its significant water burial rituals, where human remains and artifacts were found in a wetland environment, suggesting a connection between burial practices and water.

Archaeological finds of animal bones in settlement layers suggest that animal husbandry was important for their economy.

The genetics of iron age levanluhta inhabitants suggest they descend from indigenous european hunter gatherers, the corded ware culture of northern europe, and siberians, who introduced uralic language into Finland. Levanluhta people were likely Saamic speakers. Their closest modern populations with PCA based ethnicity calculators such as G25 are Europeans Saamis.

I processed 4 levanluhta genomes into microarray format and ran them through my trait predictor tool for DNA analysis. Their results are presented here.