Ancient population · Iron Age

High EEF (Middle Iron Age, England)

Name: High EEF (Middle Iron Age, England) (England_MIA_highEEF)
Creator: Genoplot

England_MIA_highEEF

High EEF (Middle Iron Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_MIA_highEEF), with 2 samples from South East England, United Kingdom, dated to c. 280–270 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany), Switzerland (Early Bronze Age) and High EEF (Late Iron Age, England); the nearest living populations are French Paris, French Pas-de-Calais and Belgian B.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H2a and K1a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 280–270 BCE
Country: United Kingdom
Origin: South East England, United Kingdom
Sampled near: Gravelly Guy 51.75, -1.20
Sites: Gravelly Guy
Thame
Samples: 2
Published in: PattersonReichNature2021
Catalogue: England_MIA_highEEF

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_SouthernGermany_Singen_EBA`	1.81
2	Switzerland (Early Bronze Age)`CHE_EBA`	1.93
3	High EEF (Late Iron Age, England)`England_LIA_highEEF`	2.10
4	Knoviz (Late Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_LBA_Knoviz`	2.21
5	Lech (Early Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_Lech_EBA`	2.24
6	High EEF (Middle Bronze Age, England)`England_MBA_highEEF`	2.29
7	La Tene (Iron Age, Czech)`Czech_IA_LaTene`	2.36
8	France (Early Bronze Age)`France_EBA`	2.40
9	Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, France)`France_EBA_BellBeaker`	2.42
10	Bell Beaker late (Bronze Age, Czechia)`Bell_Beaker_CZE_late`	2.61

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	French Paris`French_Paris`	2.89
2	French Pas-de-Calais`French_Pas-de-Calais`	2.95
3	Belgian B`BelgianB`	2.96
4	Belgian`Belgian`	3.02
5	French Brittany`French_Brittany`	3.02
6	Belgian C`BelgianC`	3.08
7	French Nord`French_Nord`	3.09
8	French Occitanie`French_Occitanie`	3.11
9	Swiss German`Swiss_German`	3.23
10	French Auvergne`French_Auvergne`	3.44

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2a1a R-Z209
R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a4b3 R-Y198506

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

H2a1
K1a4a1

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I14803`	M	370-175 calBCE	Thame	R1b1a1b1a1a2a1a R-Z209	H2a1
`I20583`	M	387-201 calBCE	Gravelly Guy	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a4b3 R-Y198506	K1a4a1