Article 5T46P Mystery Group of Humans May Have Populated the Faroe Islands Before the Vikings

Mystery Group of Humans May Have Populated the Faroe Islands Before the Vikings

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Isaac Schultz
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Centuries-old DNA collected from the bottom of a lake on the Faroe Islands is turning back the clock on human occupation of the archipelago. Vikings arrived there around 850 CE, but a team of researchers has deduced that some unknown group of humans must have arrived at these North Atlantic islands several hundred...

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