Ancient population · Neolithic

Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Estonia)

Estonia_EMN_Narva

Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Estonia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Estonia_EMN_Narva), with 2 samples from Estonia, dated to c. 4810–4640 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sweden (Mesolithic) · Sweden_Mesolithic, Sweden (Mesolithic) · SWE_Meso and Motala (Hunter-Gatherer, Sweden); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian PZ and Lithuanian SZ.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include U4a and U5b.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 4810–4640 BCE
Country
Estonia
Sampled near
Kivisaare 58.24, 26.26
Sites
Kivisaare
Veibri
Samples
2
Catalogue
Estonia_EMN_Narva

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
1Sweden (Mesolithic) · Sweden_MesolithicSweden_Mesolithic2.96
2Sweden (Mesolithic) · SWE_MesoSWE_Meso3.07
3Motala (Hunter-Gatherer, Sweden)Sweden_Motala_HG3.73
4Latvia (Middle Neolithic)Latvia_MN4.21
5Latvia (Hunter-Gatherer)Latvia_HG5.08
6Ukraine (Neolithic)Ukraine_N5.45
7Ukraine (Eneolithic)Ukraine_Eneolithic6.34
8Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Romania)Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic6.40
9Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania)Lithuania_EMN_Narva6.67
10Narva twin Kretuonas2 (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania)Lithuania_EMN_Narva_twin.Kretuonas26.70
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1LatvianLatvian18.99
2Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ19.15
3Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ19.24
4Finnish EastFinnish_East19.27
5EstonianEstonian19.31
6KarelianKarelian19.39
7IngrianIngrian19.64
8Finnish NorthFinnish_North19.66
9FinnishFinnish19.69
10Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast19.73

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
Kivisaare3M4776-4542 calBCEKivisaareR1b1a1 R-P297U4a1
Veibri4F4895-4726 calBCEVeibriU5b1