Ancient population · Iron Age

Baltic (Iron Age, Estonia)

Baltic_EST_IA

Baltic (Iron Age, Estonia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Baltic_EST_IA), with 6 samples from Lääne-Viru, Estonia, dated to about 420 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Estonia (Iron Age), Baltic (Medieval, Estonia) and Himera 480BCE 3 (Iron Age, Sicily); the nearest living populations are Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian SZ.

Period
Iron Age
Date
about 420 BCE
Country
Estonia
Origin
Lääne-Viru, Estonia
Samples
6
Catalogue
Baltic_EST_IA

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Estonia (Iron Age)Estonia_IA0.70
2Baltic (Medieval, Estonia)Baltic_EST_MA3.17
3Himera 480BCE 3 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_33.35
4Estonia (Medieval)Estonia_Medieval3.59
5Ingria (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_IA_Ingria3.68
6Viminacium Roman (Antiquity, Serbia)Serbia_Viminacium_Roman4.18
7Ingria (Iron Age)Ingria_IA4.30
8Marvele Roman (Antiquity, Lithuania)Lithuania_Marvele_Roman4.36
9Lithuania (Bronze Age)Lithuania_BA4.41
10Kurevanikha VA (Medieval)Kurevanikha_VA4.48
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1EstonianEstonian2.84
2LatvianLatvian3.22
3Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ3.47
4Russian PskovRussian_Pskov3.53
5Lithuanian VALithuanian_VA3.78
6Lithuanian RALithuanian_RA3.80
7Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ3.84
8IngrianIngrian3.91
9Lithuanian VZLithuanian_VZ4.06
10Russian YaroslavlRussian_Yaroslavl4.09

Individuals 6

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

SampleDateOrigin
s19_0LS10_1665 BCELääne-Viru, Estonia
s19_V10_2610 BCELääne-Viru, Estonia
s19_V11_1295 BCELääne-Viru, Estonia
s19_V12_1200 BCELääne-Viru, Estonia
s19_VII4_1580 BCELääne-Viru, Estonia
s19_X04_1420 BCELääne-Viru, Estonia