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Kristina Killgrove

5,500 years ago, a teenage girl was buried with her father's bones on her chest, new DNA study reveals

A human skeleton with other human bones on top, being excavated from the ground.

A rare Stone Age cemetery on a Swedish island reveals that some of Europe's last hunter-gatherers were buried not with their extremely close relations but with more distantly related people, according to a new DNA analysis.

However, some burials had close biological family members, including that of a teenage girl whose father's jumbled bones had been placed on top and next to her, the researchers found.

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