Rössberga Neolithic: Lives at the Baltic Edge
Coastal farms, pottery, and genetic echoes from 3400–2600 BCE in Sweden
Ancient and historical cultures
DNA Spotlights
Explore the places, time periods, and published research behind ancient DNA samples and the cultures associated with them.
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Culture collection
1,189–1,200 of 1,627 spotlights
Echoes of Viking Sweden
Human stories from 677–1226 CE revealed by graves, artifacts and ancient DNA
Funnel Beaker Sweden: Kvärlöv & Gökhem
A Middle Neolithic tapestry (3945–2633 BCE) of farmers, stone monuments and cautious DNA clues.
Central Sweden — Pre‑Viking Vendel Circle
Four funerary samples hint at Vendel-era lifeways and northern genetic threads
Central Sweden — Late Viking Horizon
Communities around Sigtuna and Uppsala (750–1200 CE) seen through graves, goods, and genomes
Vasterhus Voices: Northern Sweden, 11th–13th c.
Six medieval individuals from Vasterhus reveal a local northern Scandinavian tapestry of ancestry and life.
Bell Beakers of Valais
Sion-Petit-Chasseur burials where stone, pottery and genes hint at movement
Kronan: South Swedish Post‑Medieval DNA
Skeletal remains from the 1676 Kronan shipwreck reveal a compact genetic snapshot of southern Sweden
Lake Shores of Early Bronze Switzerland
Evocative glimpses of life and maternal ancestry on the Swiss plateau (3092–2030 BCE)
Sandby Borg: Öland’s Late Iron Age Echo
A terse genetic and archaeological snapshot from southern Sweden, ca. 450–500 CE
Echoes of Bronze‑Age Switzerland
Lake shores, metal, and moving people along Alpine waterways
Late Neolithic Switzerland — Lakeside Peoples
A genomic and archaeological portrait of Swiss lake-shore communities, 4455–2499 BCE