Ancient population · Neolithic
Falkenstein (Neolithic, Germany)
Germany_Falkenstein
Falkenstein (Neolithic, Germany) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Germany_Falkenstein), with 1 sample from Germany, dated to c. 7210 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sicily Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy), Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy) and Sicily (Mesolithic); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian PZ and Lithuanian SZ.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I; its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 7210 BCE
- Country
- Germany
- Sampled near
- Falkenstein-Höhle 48.06, 9.04
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- MathiesonReichNature2018
- Catalogue
Germany_Falkenstein
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 | Sicily Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic | 4.04 |
| 2 | Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)ITA_Villabruna | 4.26 |
| 3 | Sicily (Mesolithic)Sicily_Meso | 4.37 |
| 4 | North Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)Italy_North_Villabruna_HG | 4.65 |
| 5 | Sicily Late Mesolithic Castelnovian (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic_Castelnovian | 4.83 |
| 6 | BDB (Mesolithic)Meso_BDB | 4.83 |
| 7 | Ireland (Mesolithic)Ireland_Mesolithic | 4.85 |
| 8 | Germany (Mesolithic)Germany_Mesolithic | 4.86 |
| 9 | Wales (Mesolithic) · Wales_MesolithicWales_Mesolithic | 4.88 |
| 10 | Wales (Mesolithic) · Wales_MesoWales_Meso | 4.89 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LatvianLatvian | 31.12 |
| 2 | Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ | 31.18 |
| 3 | Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ | 31.21 |
| 4 | EstonianEstonian | 31.32 |
| 5 | Finnish EastFinnish_East | 31.55 |
| 6 | KarelianKarelian | 31.61 |
| 7 | Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast | 31.66 |
| 8 | FinnishFinnish | 31.69 |
| 9 | IngrianIngrian | 31.74 |
| 10 | Finnish NorthFinnish_North | 31.78 |
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.