Nationwide — Recent research suggests that dark skin was the norm for most of Europe’s history, with lighter skin becoming more common only in the last 1,700 years. Experts from the University of Ferrara in Italy discovered that, until around this time, pale skin was relatively rare across the continent.
According to the Daily Mail, researchers studied DNA from 348 ancient individuals who lived across Europe over the last 45,000 years. Their findings reveal that almost all early Europeans had dark skin. Pale skin first appeared in Sweden during the Mesolithic period (around 14,000 years ago), but it stayed rare for thousands of years.
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