Packet 2: Tossup 11

A 2024 Nature paper used DNA from tombs in this region to argue that Yersinia pestis contributed to the Eurasian “Neolithic Decline” around 3000 BC. That plague (15[1])affected a group named for this region whose mix of WHG and EHG genetics were identified from six people (-5[1])excavated at Motala and whose descendants formed the late hunter-gatherer Pitted Ware culture. A Bronze Age figurine from this region, whose concentric circles may represent a calendar, (-5[1])was gilded on one side (-5[1])and shows a horse standing (15[1])on two sets of wheels pulling the (*) sun. (10[2]-5[1])Boat-shaped battle axes (10[1])in this region (-5[1])identify the northernmost sites of the Corded Ware (10[1])culture, (10[1])which probably (10[1]-5[1])spread westward with (-5[1])PIE. (-5[1])Most surviving inscriptions (-5[1])in the Elder Futhark (10[2])alphabet (10[2]-5[1])are found (-5[1])in (-5[1])this region. (10[1])For (10[1])10 points, (10[4])what region (10[1])is the site of most runestones? (10[2]0[1])■END■ (10[16])

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