The modern Scottish population carries approximately 50% Yamnaya ancestry. Along with the Irish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Swedes, Belarusians and Lithuanians, Scots have some of the highest concentrations of Yamnaya DNA in the world.
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The Yamna (Yamnaya) culture spread across Europe in the Early Bronze Age, transforming the genetic and social landscape.
Excavation of Yamna burial mounds found older ritual structures underneath, indicating they appropriated earlier sacred spaces.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Excavation of Yamna burial mounds found older ritual structures underneath, indicating they appropriated earlier sacred spaces.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
August 21, 2026 at 7:37 AM
The modern Scottish population carries approximately 50% Yamnaya ancestry. Along with the Irish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Swedes, Belarusians and Lithuanians, Scots have some of the highest concentrations of Yamnaya DNA in the world.
#WesternSteppeHerders
#BellBeaker
#Picts
#WesternSteppeHerders
#BellBeaker
#Picts