5,500-Year-Old Burial in Sweden Solves Mystery of Stone Age Social Structures

5,500-Year-Old Burial in Sweden Solves Mystery of Stone Age Social Structures

At Ajvide, a girl and a young woman were found to be third-degree relatives. Credit: Johan Norderäng / Uppsala University A 5,500-year-old burial site in Sweden is offering rare insight into Stone Age social structures, showing that family ties shaped how some hunter-gatherer communities buried their dead. The study found that people placed in shared graves were not buried together by chance. They were close biological relatives, suggesting kins…