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Originally Posted by Lutiferre
The target of the conclusion is absurd anyway, being based on the false premise that anyone ever postulated the existence of a genetically or otherwise "pure Scandinavian race". Even if this one person who is seemingly "Arabian" intermixed with Danes, he was obviously found on Danish ground, and was absorbed by the society and larger gene pool and as such has no significance - certainly it doesnt indicate anything about the structure of the Iron Age society, and concluding anything about the society out of the maternal DNA of one individual found in some grave is just absurd beyond words. Seems like a desperate hunger for material that can be used for political propaganda in a case where the evidence desired is simply not there.
I dont know about the original findings, but in any case, this was published by the University of Copenhagen, and affirms their politicality. This state funded "research" is a perfect example of the infestation of multiculturalist doctrines in academic circles.
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Research have been made showing that researchers most often .. start researching with a goal in their minds and interpret their findings according to the mental construct they had in mind before starting their researches.
It isn't written in the tomb they opened that this man was part of a large movement, was married to a local and had a role different from that of a servant, or slave.
They are stretching data quite a bit. Serious archaeologists, and I now quite a bit of them, do not use to take such broad conclusions from a few specimens, but ours, despite all, are not generally politicized in their work.
Ours register data and make hypothesis, while when answering the public's questions are ever much more than cautious and most often refrain to take broad conclusions.
they know that evidence is scarce, also what appears a possible truth today can be overturned completely tomorrow by a new find.