Ancient population · Iron Age
Alt (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age, England)
England_MIA_LIA_alt
Alt (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_MIA_LIA_alt), with 1 sample from United Kingdom, dated to c. 250 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Middle Iron Age), Netherlands (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age) and Low res (Early Iron Age, England); the nearest living populations are Irish, Scottish and Orcadian.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is H1c.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 250 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Ham Hill 50.95, -2.74
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
England_MIA_LIA_alt
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 | Scotland (Middle Iron Age)Scotland_MIA | 4.06 |
| 2 | Netherlands (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)Netherlands_MIA_LIA | 4.13 |
| 3 | Low res (Early Iron Age, England)England_EIA_low_res | 4.17 |
| 4 | Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman | 4.24 |
| 5 | EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM | 4.25 |
| 6 | Scotland (Late Iron Age)Scotland_LIA | 4.28 |
| 7 | Ireland (Bronze Age)IRL_BA | 4.31 |
| 8 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 4.31 |
| 9 | Hofstadir VA (Medieval)Hofstadir_VA | 4.33 |
| 10 | Scotland (Early Iron Age)Scotland_EIA | 4.35 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IrishIrish | 4.50 |
| 2 | ScottishScottish | 4.60 |
| 3 | OrcadianOrcadian | 4.71 |
| 4 | NorwegianNorwegian | 4.77 |
| 5 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 4.79 |
| 6 | IcelandicIcelandic | 4.87 |
| 7 | WelshWelsh | 4.89 |
| 8 | EnglishEnglish | 4.92 |
| 9 | DutchDutch | 4.92 |
| 10 | English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall | 4.98 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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 | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I19655 | F | 400-100 BCE | Ham Hill | H1c3a |