Round 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 affected a group named for this region whose mix of WHG and EHG genetics were identified from six people 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, was gilded on one side and shows a horse standing (15[1])on two sets of wheels pulling the (*) sun. Boat-shaped battle axes in this region identify the northernmost sites of the Corded Ware culture, which probably spread westward with PIE. (-5[1])Most surviving inscriptions in the Elder Futhark alphabet (10[1]-5[1])are found in (-5[1])this region. For (10[1])10 points, what region is the site of most runestones? (0[1])■END■ (10[2])

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