Did Nordicists defile archaeological sites to replace some of the remains with Scandinavian ones?

One obvious example is from Bronze Age Cyprus, from the Yediay et al. paper in December of last year. There is a skull from an I1 Nordic male that's a complete outlier.

>Tomb 69 consisted of a single chamber and looked disturbed at the moment of the excavation40. Cranium 2 (CGG_2_022535/Rise 1678) was found immediately to the right of the entrance together with finds 1-1040. The skull was probably not in situ. According to Hjortsjö73 the skull belonged to a male of approximately 30 years. Fischer74 defined the find as belonging to a male adult of c. 18-20 years. Dunn-Vaturi questions both results, because the grave seems to have contained just one individual, who was furnished with grave goods including a spindle whorl and a pin, typical for female burials.

>As a curiosity, it is interesting to mention that according to Hjortsjö’s craniometrics studies73 (such studies were still carried out at the beginning of last century) cranium II was considered a sort of outlier, compared to the other skulls from the region.

There was also an expedition of Swedish anthropologists to the site in the 1930s. So a disturbed male skull not in situ in a woman's grave, genetically Nordic, site was excavated by Swedes, strontium isotopes shows it came from Sweden. There is no explanation other than a Swedish fraud sloppily took a skull from Sweden with him and put it there to make the ancient Med seem more "Nordic".

Anthropologists should stop trying to find innocent or fantastical hypotheses for these outlier samples and keep in mind that there was historically a massive attempt by Northern Europeans to try and erase and take credit for Southern European antiquity in the early 20th century, and that archaeology as a field has historically massively been plagued by fraud and fakes. These outlier samples need to all be carbon dated and strontium analyzed to find their actual origin.

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Did Nordicists defile archaeological sites to replace some of the remains with Scandinavian ones?One obvious example is from Bronze Age Cyprus,…

Did Nordicists defile archaeological sites to replace some of the remains with Scandinavian ones?
One obvious example is from Bronze Age Cyprus,…