One quote from the article I found interesting was this: > DNA from teeth suggests some warriors are related to modern southern Europeans and others to people

One quote from the article I found interesting was this: > DNA from teeth suggests some warriors are related to modern southern Europeans and others to people living in modern-day Poland and Scandinavia. "This is not a bunch of local idiots,” says University of Mainz geneticist Joachim Burger. “It’s a highly diverse population.” I'm curious if this analysis takes into account the historical migration patterns of the Germanic tribes that were potentially living in the area at that era. For instance, the Vandals, Goths and Lombards are all believed to have been settled in north-central Europe prior to their late-Roman migrations into Italy, Spain and elsewhere. On the other hand, this might be before those tribes migrated south out of Scandinavia, if, as is believed, they originated in Scandinavia, in which case the inhabitants of this area may have been the proto-Celtic Urnfield culture[1]. And there is always the question of how much displacement versus assimilation occurred in these movements. It all gets pretty hazy, and most of these divisions are based on styles of artifacts and burial practices. As DNA sequencing improves, I'm very interested in seeing how that fills in the blanks around these large-scale migration events. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urnfield_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urnfield_culture