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Early Christian communities in Sweden often buried children in the same grave with adults, but archaeologists have found that these individuals rarely shared close biological ties, raising the question of how medieval people interred their dead. In a new study, researchers analyzed the DNA of 142 skeletons from three cemeteries in Sweden dating to the…
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