About the Authors

Linea Melchior

Affiliation Research Laboratory, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Toomas Kivisild

Affiliation Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, The Henry Wellcome Building, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Niels Lynnerup

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jørgen Dissing

joergen.dissing@forensic.ku.dk

Affiliation Research Laboratory, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM JD. Performed the experiments: LM. Analyzed the data: TK LM JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM NL JD. Wrote the paper: LM JD. Other: Provided the contacts to the archaeological researchers and contributed with input regarding the archaeological/anthropological data: NL.