Ancient population · Medieval

Gnezdovo VA (Medieval)

Gnezdovo_VA

Gnezdovo VA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Gnezdovo_VA), with 7 samples from Smolensk Oblast, Russia, dated to c. 1000 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Viking (Medieval, Russia), Viminacium Roman elite 1 (Antiquity, Serbia) and Gotland VA (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Slovakian, Czech and Polish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I1a, N1a and R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H13a, H6a, H7a and HV0a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1000 CE
Country
Russia
Origin
Smolensk Oblast, Russia
Sampled near
Gnezdovo 54.78, 31.87
Samples
7
Catalogue
Gnezdovo_VA

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
1Viking (Medieval, Russia)Russia_Viking2.31
2Viminacium Roman elite 1 (Antiquity, Serbia)Serbia_Viminacium_Roman_elite_12.63
3Gotland VA (Medieval)Gotland_VA2.65
4Viking (Medieval, Sweden)Sweden_Viking2.94
5Ladoga VA (Medieval)Ladoga_VA3.13
6Fuzesabony (Middle Bronze Age, Hungary)Hungary_MBA_Fuzesabony3.13
7Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval)Viking_Age_Sigtuna3.20
8Bodzia VA (Medieval)Bodzia_VA3.21
9Krakauer Berg (Medieval)MA_Krakauer_Berg3.23
10Avar 5 (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_Avar_53.25
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SlovakianSlovakian2.58
2CzechCzech2.64
3PolishPolish2.67
4Polish SilesianPolish_Silesian2.73
5UkrainianUkrainian2.82
6Ukrainian DniproUkrainian_Dnipro2.83
7Ukrainian ZakarpattiaUkrainian_Zakarpattia2.85
8Ukrainian LvivUkrainian_Lviv2.97
9Ukrainian RivneUkrainian_Rivne2.98
10Russian RyazanRussian_Ryazan3.13

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

mtDNA

7 individuals with a call

Individuals 7

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
VK223M900-1100 CEGnezdovoI1a3a1 I-FT401330H13a1a1c
VK224M900-1100 CEGnezdovoN1a1a1a1a1a1a7a3 N-BY88300H7a1
VK254F900-1100 CEGnezdovoHV0a1
VK255F900-1100 CEGnezdovoU4c1
VK272F900-1100 CEGnezdovoK1b2b
VK273M900-1100 CEGnezdovoR1b1a1b1a1a2b1c2 R-Y45264U5a2a1b1
VK466M900-1100 CEGnezdovoR1a R1aH6a1a4