Ancient population · Antiquity

Roman Near Eastern (Antiquity, England)

England_Roman_Near_Eastern

Roman Near Eastern (Antiquity, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_Roman_Near_Eastern), with 1 sample from Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom, dated to about 200 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age), Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt) and IBA (Bronze Age, Israel); the nearest living populations are Egyptian Copt, Bedouin A and Yemenite Amran.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2b; its mtDNA haplogroup is H5.

Period
Antiquity
Date
about 200 CE
Origin
Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom
Sampled near
Driffield Terrace 53.96, -1.08
Samples
1
Catalogue
England_Roman_Near_Eastern_o outliers

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
1Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian3.26
2Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod3.57
3IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)Israel_IBA3.67
4Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA4.61
5Jordan (Early Bronze Age)Jordan_EBA4.73
6Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA4.74
7Jordan (Late Bronze Age)Jordan_LBA5.05
8Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAII5.13
9Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA5.13
10Hellenistic (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_Hellenistic5.18
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Egyptian CoptEgyptian_Copt3.81
2Bedouin ABedouinA4.49
3Yemenite AmranYemenite_Amran4.65
4PalestinianPalestinian4.71
5JordanianJordanian4.98
6Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar5.10
7Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca5.18
8SamaritanSamaritan5.33
9Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib5.65
10Saudi ASaudiA5.65

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 1

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
3DT26 outlierM50-350 CEDriffield TerraceJ2b1b2 J-BY81244H5