Re: The First Swedes

On Mar 22, 2025 at 1:19:42 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 3/22/2025 3:48 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

 State TV in Sweden (SVT) has produced a big budget series called HISTORY OF
 SWEDEN.

 

 This is who the government wants its people to believe were are the first
 Swedes:

 

 
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1903440799997796352/vid/avc1/1484x1080/zSkOkYQL6jojG3pq.mp4?tag=16

 
 No fucking way. Isn't the theory that as primitive man moved further and
 further north, skin pigmentation lightened? I've never read that skin
 lighted after people moved into colder and colder climates.
 
 I'm horrified that they weren't vegetarians.

 
They would be dark-skinned when they arrived, and evolve to
lighter-skinned to maintain Vitamin D levels despite reduced sunlight.

People didn't come directly from Africa to Scandinavia. They'd already evolved
lighter skin by living in Europe for centuries by the time they got to the
high northern latitudes.

The early inhabitants of Sweden, dating back to the Bromme culture post-Ice
Age (around 12,000 BC) and through the Neolithic and Iron Ages, were
overwhelmingly of northern European descent-- hunter-gatherers, farmers, and
later Norse populations with light skin, varied eye colors, and genetics
tracing back to local European ancestry, not Africa. Genetic studies spanning
2,000 years (as detailed in ScienceDirect's research) show influences from the
eastern Baltic, British-Irish Isles, and southern Europe, but zero indication
of direct African migration in Scandinavia during these periods.