Mixed ancestry of Europeans who settled Iceland and Greenland

3D geometric-morphometric analyses of cranial base shape

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7657639
AutoresKimberly A Plomp (0000-0002-9932-5491, Simon Fraser University, autor de correspondencia), Keith Dobney (0000-0001-9036-4681, The University of Sydney), Hildur Gestsdóttir (0000-0002-8382-5985), M Collard (0000-0002-2725-4989, Simon Fraser University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen97
Número395
Páginas1249-1261
Fecha de publicación2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditorialAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2023.131
OpenAlexW4387533006
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas19

Debate surrounds the identity of the Europeans who settled Iceland and Greenland in the early medieval period. Historical sources record settlers travelling from Norway to Iceland and then Greenland, but recent analyses of biological data suggest that some settlers had British and Irish ancestry. Here, the authors test these hypotheses with 3D-shape analyses of human crania from Scandinavia, Britain and Ireland, and one of the Norse colonies in Greenland. Results suggest that some 63 per cent of the ancestry of the Greenlandic individuals can be traced to Britain and Ireland and 37 per cent to Scandinavia. These findings add further weight to the idea that the European settlers who colonised Iceland and later Greenland were of mixed ancestry

Archaeology · Art · Crania · Genealogy · Geography · Irish · Period (music) · Viking Age · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Morphological variations and asymmetry · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology