This decorated comb, carved from an antler, was found in a warrior’s grave in Niederstotzingen, Germany.
To find out who the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ were, a research team led by archaeologist Niall O’Sullivan, who at the time was working at the Eurac Research Insтιтute for Mummy Studies in Bolzano, Italy, and who is now at the Max Planck Insтιтute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, applied next-generation sequencing methods to compile enormous amounts of genetic material from bone samples from the 13 buried individuals—10 adults, one infant, one toddler, and one child.
One gracile young warrior, who some researchers had previously speculated might be female, turned out to be male. So did 10 of the 12 remaining bodies; the Sєx of the final two proved inconclusive. Five of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ were directly related to one another, but seven were unrelated.
