Ancient population · Bronze Age
Saqqaq (Bronze Age, Greenland)
Greenland_Saqqaq
Saqqaq (Bronze Age, Greenland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Greenland_Saqqaq), with 1 sample from Greenland, dated to c. 1930 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to MDorset (Antiquity, Canada), Late Dorset (Canada) and Lena River Middle N (Chalcolithic, Russia); the nearest living populations are Itelmen, Koryak and Yukagir Tundra.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is D2a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1930 BCE
- Country
- Greenland
- Sampled near
- Qeqertasussuk 69.24, -53.54
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- RasmussenWillerslevNature2010
- Catalogue
Greenland_Saqqaq.SGvariant
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 | MDorset (Antiquity, Canada)Canada_MDorset | 2.89 |
| 2 | Late Dorset (Canada)Canada_LateDorset | 3.09 |
| 3 | Lena River Middle N (Chalcolithic, Russia)Russia_LenaRiver_MiddleN | 5.27 |
| 4 | Magadan (Bronze Age)Magadan_BA | 6.37 |
| 5 | Dzhylinda (Mesolithic)Dzhylinda_Meso | 6.97 |
| 6 | Buryatia M (Neolithic)Buryatia_M | 7.05 |
| 7 | Buryatia M (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_Buryatia_M | 7.24 |
| 8 | Siberia Lena (Early Neolithic, Russia)Russia_Siberia_Lena_EN | 8.38 |
| 9 | Ust Belaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_UstBelaya_EBA | 9.04 |
| 10 | Angara River (Neolithic)Angara_River_N | 9.17 |
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.