Anders Fischer, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Theis Zetner Trolle Jensen, Marie Louise Jørkov, Per Lysdahl, Tharsika Vimala, Alba Refoyo-Martínez, Gabriele Scorrano, T Douglas Price, Darren R Gröcke, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Lasse Sørensen, Verner Alexandersen, Sidsel Wåhlin, Jesper Stenderup, Ole Bennike, Andrés Ingason, Rune Iversen, Martin Sikora, Fernando Racimo, Eske Willerslev, Morten E Allentoft, Kristian Kristiansen
The lethally maltreated body of Vittrup Man was deposited in a Danish bog, probably as part of a ritualised sacrifice. It happened between c. 3300 and 3100 cal years BC, i.e., during the period of the local farming-based Funnel Beaker Culture. In terms of skull morphological features, he differs from the majority of the contemporaneous farmers found in Denmark, and associates with hunter-gatherers, who inhabited Scandinavia during the previous millennia. His skeletal remains were selected for transdisciplinary analysis to reveal his life-history in terms of a population historical perspective...
2024: PloS One