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"textContent": "submitted by supersquirrel to archaeology\n8 points | 0 comments\nhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2515260-the-surprising-origins-of-britains-bronze-age-immigrants-revealed/\n\n> Before joining the project, Reich wasn’t too excited, he admits: “The Netherlands seemed like the most boring place in the world – every single bit of ground there has been walked on a million times before. But it turned out to be perhaps the most interesting place in Europe.”\n\n> The DNA sequenced by his lab revealed a population forged in the Rhine-Meuse delta in the Dutch-Belgian borderlands, originating from a resourceful group of hunter-gatherers surviving in the waterlogged wetlands around these big rivers, feeding on fish, waterfowl, game and various plants.\n\nThe Netherlands _is like so boring_ ughh.",
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