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 (-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 and shows a horse standing on two sets of wheels pulling the (*) sun. (10[2])Boat-shaped battle axes in this region identify the northernmost sites of the Corded Ware culture, which probably spread westward with PIE. Most surviving inscriptions in the Elder Futhark alphabet are found in this region. For 10 points, what region is the site of most runestones? ■END■ (10[2])

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