Record

Sample details

Recorded details and available lineage markers.

Individual

Nordic Mn individual, Sweden

Sample ID: Gokhem2

Date Range

3086 BCE - 2907 BCE

Cultural Period

Middle Neolithic Nordic Countries

Biological Sex

Female

mtDNA Haplogroup

Not available

Y-DNA Haplogroup

Not available

Social Role

Farmer (AI estimate, era-typical)

Geography

Location

Where this individual was discovered

Country Sweden

Locality Gökhem. Västergötland

A location map is not available for this record.

Chronology

Date range

When this individual lived in the broader context of human history

Nordic Mn individual, Sweden 3086 BCE - 2907 BCE

Context

Historical context

Background information associated with the reference record.

Overview

In the Nordic Middle Neolithic, agricultural communities expanded and refined their lifeways. Across this period, changing material styles and mortuary practices document how groups communicated identity and belonging.

Region & Environment

The Nordic environment includes temperate forests and coasts, with growing seasons and soil types that vary by locality. Communities settled where farming could be supported, often integrating cultivation with fishing, hunting, and gathered resources from surrounding landscapes.

Historical Context

The Middle Neolithic belongs to the broader Neolithic transition in Northern Europe, when farming and new technologies became established over generations. Instead of abrupt change, this era is characterized by gradual shifts in settlement organization and craft traditions.

Populations & Lifeways

People generally lived in rural farmsteads and used long-term local resources. Animal husbandry and crop cultivation provided dietary staples, while household and community labor maintained fields, buildings, and tool production. Seasonal activities would have complemented farming.

Archaeology & Material Culture

Material remains commonly include pottery, worked stone tools, and features associated with domestic life and burial. Pottery styles and stone tool forms can vary regionally, offering archaeologists a way to track connectivity and local tradition. Evidence for recurring burial practices indicates that mortuary behavior remained a significant part of social life.

Culture & Society

Social organization is often inferred through the distribution of grave goods and the recurrence of particular burial forms. Such patterns suggest that communities had shared conventions for honoring the dead while also maintaining local differences in style.

Legacy & Transition

The Middle Neolithic provided the social and technological groundwork for later Neolithic phases in the Nordic region. Subsequent periods show further developments in mortuary expression, craft styles, and long-distance interaction, building on earlier agricultural settlement foundations.

Analysis

Genetic comparisons

These comparisons show genetic similarity, not identity or origin. The populations listed are those whose genomes show statistical alignment to this ancient individual.

Similarity reflects shared history, not shared identity. These are analytical comparisons, not claims about who this person was.

Modern Genetic Admixture

This analysis compares the DNA profile with present-day reference populations, showing statistical similarity to modern reference populations from different regions. The excavation site records where this individual was found, not a fixed modern genetic identity.

Europe 96.5%

Southern European 88.2%

Iberian 26.9%

Italian 26.9%

Sardinian 23.7%

Balkan 10.7%

Northwestern European 8.3%

Asia 3.5%

Arab, Egyptian & Levantine 3.5%

Arabian 3.5%

Closest Modern Populations

These are the modern populations showing the closest statistical alignment to A woman buried in Sweden in the era, ranked by genetic distance. Lower distance values indicate closer statistical similarity. Cross-region similarity can reflect shared ancestry, population movement, continuity, or later admixture.

1

Sardinian

3.8197

2

Spanish La Rioja

4.8704

3

French Corsica

4.8993

4

Spanish Castilla La Mancha

5.1759

5

Spanish Castello

5.2194

6

Spanish Pirineu

5.2517

7

Spanish Aragon

5.2806

8

Spanish Cantabria

5.3002

9

Spanish Menorca

5.3043

10

Spanish Navarra

5.3320

Context

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This individual exists within a broader network of ancient samples. No ancient genome stands alone.

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