Ancient population · Iron Age
Denmark (Iron Age)
Denmark_IA
Denmark (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Denmark_IA), with 2 samples from Denmark, dated to c. 100–300 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sealand (Iron Age), Saaremaa EVA (Medieval) and Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia); the nearest living populations are Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I1a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H16b and U2e.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 100–300 CE
- Country
- Denmark
- Sampled near
- Brondsager Torsiinre 55.65, 12.24
- Sites
- Brondsager Torsiinre
Kragehave Odetofter - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
- Catalogue
Denmark_IA.SGvariant
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sealand (Iron Age)Sealand_IA | 1.79 |
| 2 | Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)Saaremaa_EVA | 1.86 |
| 3 | Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)Estonia_EarlyViking | 1.92 |
| 4 | Hiddestorf Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_Hiddestorf_Saxon_EMedieval | 2.07 |
| 5 | Mid VA (Medieval)Mid_VA | 2.12 |
| 6 | Saxon (Early Medieval, England)England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon | 2.13 |
| 7 | Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking | 2.20 |
| 8 | North VA (Medieval)North_VA | 2.21 |
| 9 | Saxon (Medieval, England)England_Saxon | 2.22 |
| 10 | Sealand EVA (Medieval)Sealand_EVA | 2.22 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IcelandicIcelandic | 2.16 |
| 2 | NorwegianNorwegian | 2.20 |
| 3 | SwedishSwedish | 2.21 |
| 4 | DanishDanish | 2.37 |
| 5 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.05 |
| 6 | ScottishScottish | 3.15 |
| 7 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.16 |
| 8 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 3.19 |
| 9 | DutchDutch | 3.22 |
| 10 | IrishIrish | 3.27 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.