Genetic research is not all there is to anthropology and history.
We know from archaeological and anthropological research that prehistoric Scandinavia was populated by three or more different groups of people, for example, the Fosna Folk, who were short in stature and brachycephalic (broad headed), and the Komsa Folk (I don't recall their physical description offhand).
It's a fairly safe bet that not all of those different peoples were I1a.
The word gracile means slender, slim, graceful.
Genetic researchers today generally try to test rural populations whose families have resided in the same place for several generations. In this way they hope to obtain results that are somewhat indicative of a native population. Of course, that procedure is not fool proof.
Given the current genetic evidence for the Scandinavian population and the anthropological and archaeological evidence, my own belief is that the male population of Scandinavia probably never was wholly I1a.
I1a was there in prehistoric times, to be sure, but there were other varieties of Y-DNA, as well.
I could be wrong, of course, but I don't think so.
It was a rare people, even in prehistoric times, who were entirely one thing or stayed that way for long.
We know from archaeological and anthropological research that prehistoric Scandinavia was populated by three or more different groups of people, for example, the Fosna Folk, who were short in stature and brachycephalic (broad headed), and the Komsa Folk (I don't recall their physical description offhand).
It's a fairly safe bet that not all of those different peoples were I1a.
The word gracile means slender, slim, graceful.
Genetic researchers today generally try to test rural populations whose families have resided in the same place for several generations. In this way they hope to obtain results that are somewhat indicative of a native population. Of course, that procedure is not fool proof.
Given the current genetic evidence for the Scandinavian population and the anthropological and archaeological evidence, my own belief is that the male population of Scandinavia probably never was wholly I1a.
I1a was there in prehistoric times, to be sure, but there were other varieties of Y-DNA, as well.
I could be wrong, of course, but I don't think so.
It was a rare people, even in prehistoric times, who were entirely one thing or stayed that way for long.
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