About the Authors

Karin Margarita Frei

Karin.M.Frei@natmus.dk

Affiliation National Museum of Denmark, Department of Conservation and Natural Sciences, Environmental Archaeology and Material Science, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Chiara Villa

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

Marie Louise Jørkov

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

Morten E. Allentoft

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Flemming Kaul

Affiliation National Museum of Denmark, Department of Research and Exhibition, Ancient Cultures of Denmark and the Mediterranean, Copenhagen, Denmark

Per Ethelberg

Affiliation Museum Sønderjylland, Archaeology, Haderslev, Denmark

Samantha S. Reiter

Affiliation National Museum of Denmark, Department of Conservation and Natural Sciences, Environmental Archaeology and Material Science, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Andrew S. Wilson

Affiliation School of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom

Michelle Taube

Affiliation National Museum of Denmark, Department of Conservation and Natural Sciences, Environmental Archaeology and Material Science, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Jesper Olsen

Affiliation University of Aarhus, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus, Denmark

Niels Lynnerup

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

Eske Willerslev

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Kristian Kristiansen

Affiliation Institute for Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Robert Frei

Affiliation Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KMF. Data curation: KMF RF CV MLJ MEA ASW MT JO NL. Formal analysis: KMF RF ASW MEA CV MLJ JO. Funding acquisition: KMF. Investigation: KMF RF ASW MEA CV MLJ JO. Methodology: KMF. Project administration: KMF. Resources: KMF FK RF EW ASW NL JO. Writing – original draft: KMF. Writing – review & editing: KMF CV MLJ MEA RF FK PE SSR ASW MT KK JO.