Ancient population · Iron Age
Delphi (Iron Age, Greece)
Greece_Delphi_IA
Delphi (Iron Age, Greece) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Greece_Delphi_IA), with 1 sample from Greece, dated to c. 640 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily), Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece) and Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece); the nearest living populations are Italian Campania, Greek Apulia and Greek Deep Mani.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup T1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is U8b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 640 BCE
- Country
- Greece
- Sampled near
- Kastrouli 38.40, 22.57
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Greece_Delphi_IA
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 | Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_1 | 3.22 |
| 2 | Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean | 3.34 |
| 3 | Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_BA_Mycenaean | 3.44 |
| 4 | Transtisza Maros Early Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_Transtisza_Maros_EAvar | 3.71 |
| 5 | Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE | 4.04 |
| 6 | Bulgaria (Iron Age)Bulgaria_IA | 4.25 |
| 7 | Krepost (Neolithic, Bulgaria)Bulgaria_Krepost_N | 4.36 |
| 8 | Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA | 4.37 |
| 9 | Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)Bulgaria_EIA | 4.49 |
| 10 | Sardinia 1 (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_IA_1 | 4.57 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 5.35 |
| 2 | Greek ApuliaGreek_Apulia | 5.39 |
| 3 | Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani | 5.47 |
| 4 | Italian BasilicataItalian_Basilicata | 5.49 |
| 5 | Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria | 5.52 |
| 6 | Greek Cyclades AmorgosGreek_Cyclades_Amorgos | 5.56 |
| 7 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 5.57 |
| 8 | Greek Cyclades TinosGreek_Cyclades_Tinos | 5.65 |
| 9 | Italian AbruzzoItalian_Abruzzo | 5.80 |
| 10 | Greek Crete LasithiGreek_Crete_Lasithi | 5.80 |
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.