Ancient population · Iron Age
La Tene (Iron Age)
IA_La_Tene
La Tene (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (IA_La_Tene), with 3 samples from Western Transdanubia, Hungary, dated to c. 270 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Langeland VA (Medieval), Germany (Early Medieval) and Baiuvaric (Medieval); the nearest living populations are German East, German Hamburg and German Erlangen.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is U8b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 270 BCE
- Country
- Hungary
- Origin
- Western Transdanubia, Hungary
- Sampled near
- Kópháza-Széles-földek 47.65, 16.63
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
IA_La_TeneIA_La_Tene_o_low_resoutliersIA_La_Tene_oWest_low_resoutliers
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 | Langeland VA (Medieval)Langeland_VA | 2.98 |
| 2 | Germany (Early Medieval)Germany_EarlyMedieval | 3.04 |
| 3 | Baiuvaric (Medieval)MA_Baiuvaric | 3.04 |
| 4 | Czech (Iron Age)Czech_IA | 3.08 |
| 5 | Viking (Medieval, Sweden)Sweden_Viking | 3.21 |
| 6 | Grand Est IA2 (Iron Age, France)France_GrandEst_IA2 | 3.23 |
| 7 | Viking (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_Viking | 3.24 |
| 8 | Langobard (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_Langobard | 3.30 |
| 9 | Zealand Saxon (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_Zealand_Saxon_Medieval | 3.35 |
| 10 | Skara VA (Medieval)Skara_VA | 3.39 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | German EastGerman_East | 2.31 |
| 2 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 2.68 |
| 3 | German ErlangenGerman_Erlangen | 2.87 |
| 4 | GermanGerman | 2.94 |
| 5 | CzechCzech | 3.18 |
| 6 | Belgian ABelgianA | 3.40 |
| 7 | AustrianAustrian | 3.41 |
| 8 | HungarianHungarian | 3.43 |
| 9 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.50 |
| 10 | DutchDutch | 3.55 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.
| Sample | Catalogue entry | Sex | Date | Site | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I18833 outlier | IA_La_Tene_oWest_low_res | F | 350-200 BCE | Kópháza-Széles-földek | U8b1b2 |
I20505 outlier | IA_La_Tene_o_low_res | Prague, Czech Republic | |||
I20774 outlier | IA_La_Tene | Western Transdanubia, Hungary |