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Oct. 30th, 2018 06:38 pmTusen år i lappmarken by Lilian Ryd and Tomas Cramér (2012) [A Thousand Years in the Lapp Marches, only in Swedish]
About the Sami people of northern Scandinavia, from a historical perspective. ( Cut for length )
Min europeiska familj: de senaste 54 000 åren by Karin Bojs (2015) [in English as My European Family: the First 54 000 Years]
The movements of people in Europe in the last 54 000 years, as seen through the lens of the author's own DNA tests (she's related to all the major groups). It starts with the children of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the Middle East, whose DNA is still with us today. Then the extinction of the Neanderthals and the migration of Homo sapiens into Europe, the migration of farmers from the Middle East bringing agriculture about 7 000-8 000 years ago, and then the migration of the Indo-Europeans from about 4 800 years ago. It really puts our own time into perspective! If our technological culture lasts ten thousand years (like the Gravettian, 33 000-22 000 years ago) then we're talking. (It totally won't.) Oh, and also--apparently the Europeans of that time had dark skin and hair and blue eyes, which is not how they're usually portrayed.
About the Sami people of northern Scandinavia, from a historical perspective. ( Cut for length )
Min europeiska familj: de senaste 54 000 åren by Karin Bojs (2015) [in English as My European Family: the First 54 000 Years]
The movements of people in Europe in the last 54 000 years, as seen through the lens of the author's own DNA tests (she's related to all the major groups). It starts with the children of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the Middle East, whose DNA is still with us today. Then the extinction of the Neanderthals and the migration of Homo sapiens into Europe, the migration of farmers from the Middle East bringing agriculture about 7 000-8 000 years ago, and then the migration of the Indo-Europeans from about 4 800 years ago. It really puts our own time into perspective! If our technological culture lasts ten thousand years (like the Gravettian, 33 000-22 000 years ago) then we're talking. (It totally won't.) Oh, and also--apparently the Europeans of that time had dark skin and hair and blue eyes, which is not how they're usually portrayed.
