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@article{Iversen2017TalkingNL,
title={Talking Neolithic: Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on How Indo-European Was Implemented in Southern Scandinavia},
author={Rune Iversen and Guus J Kroonen},
journal={American Journal of Archaeology},
year={2017},
volume={121},
pages={511 - 525},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4811514}
}In this article, we approach the Neolithization of southern Scandinavia from an archaeolinguistic perspective. Farming arrived in Scandinavia with the Funnel Beaker culture by the turn of the fourth millennium B.C.E. It was superseded by the Single Grave culture, which as part of the Corded Ware horizon is a likely vector for the introduction of Indo-European speech. As a result of this introduction, the language spoken by individuals from the Funnel Beaker culture went extinct long before the…