Motala hunter gatherers part 2: I0012, I0013, I0015

The Motala hunter-gatherers are a group of Mesolithic individuals whose remains were discovered at the site of Kanaljorden, near the modern town of Motala in southern Sweden. The site dates to roughly 6000–5700 BCE.

The site was excavated beginning in 2009 under the direction of Swedish archaeologist Fredrik Hallgren, along with a team of researchers working on Mesolithic Scandinavia. The remains later became internationally significant when ancient DNA was successfully extracted and analyzed. Genetic studies showed that the Motala individuals belonged to the group known as Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherers (SHG), who carried a mixture of Western and Eastern European hunter-gatherer ancestry. This qpAdm model finds just over half eastern hunter gatherer and just under half western hunter gatherer admixture in the Motala. Their paleolithic breakdown shows mostly western hunter gatherer ancestry, together with some ancient north eurasian and dzudzuana inherited through the eastern hunter gatherers.

In my previous video I’ve covered the 3 Motala hunter gatherers that carried East Asian EDAR. In this video, I’ll focus on the remaining 3 samples.