Ancient population · Iron Age
Low EEF (Middle Iron Age, England)
England_MIA_lowEEF
Low EEF (Middle Iron Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_MIA_lowEEF), with 2 samples from East Midlands, United Kingdom, dated to c. 310–270 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland), Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age) and Scotland (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Irish, Scottish and Norwegian.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include I2 and T2b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 310–270 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- East Midlands, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Carsington Pasture Cave 52.20, -0.14
- Sites
- Carsington Pasture Cave
Cliffs End Farm - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
England_MIA_lowEEF
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 | Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman | 1.96 |
| 2 | Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)Scotland_MIA_LIA | 2.05 |
| 3 | Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)Scotland_MBA | 2.10 |
| 4 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 2.25 |
| 5 | East Yorkshire (Late Iron Age, England)England_EastYorkshire_LIA | 2.26 |
| 6 | Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_MBA | 2.26 |
| 7 | Scotland (Late Iron Age)Scotland_LIA | 2.31 |
| 8 | England (Late Bronze Age)England_LBA | 2.31 |
| 9 | Low EEF (Late Bronze Age, England)England_LBA_lowEEF | 2.34 |
| 10 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 2.35 |
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.