The project “A Multi-species study of biological and social relatedness in Neolithic Sweden” is a multi-species and multi-method study of human and animal relatedness, employing genetic and isotopic methods combined with osteological and archaeological data. Funded by the Swedish Vetenskapsrådet to Gothenburg University in cooperation with Lund University and the Centre for Geogenetics in Copenhagen, this five-year project will focus on Neolithic humans and domestic animals from western Sweden in four main parts: 1) Human kinship, biology and social structure. 2) Animal biological relatedness. 3) Human and animal diseases. 4) Sr isotopes and mobility. We will use recent advances in the analysis of ancient DNA, which can now detect fine-scale genetic relations between individuals, to identify biological kinship relations among humans as well as among domestic animals on different spatial scales.

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