Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer
Iberia Northwest (Mesolithic)
Iberia_Northwest_Meso
Iberia Northwest (Mesolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Iberia_Northwest_Meso), with 2 samples from Asturias, Spain, dated to about 5903 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Spain (Hunter-Gatherer), Iberia Northeast Azilian (Upper Paleolithic) and Azilian (Upper Paleolithic, Spain); the nearest living populations are Finnish East, Karelian and Finnish Southeast.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a and U5b.
- Period
- Hunter-Gatherer
- Date
- about 5903 BCE
- Country
- Spain
- Origin
- Asturias, Spain
- Sampled near
- Chan do Lindeiro 43.04, -5.87
- Sites
- Chan do Lindeiro
Los Canes - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- González-FortesHofreiterCurrBiol2017
- Catalogue
Iberia_Northwest_Meso
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 | Spain (Hunter-Gatherer)Spain_HG | 0.74 |
| 2 | Iberia Northeast Azilian (Upper Paleolithic)Iberia_Northeast_UP_Azilian | 3.45 |
| 3 | Azilian (Upper Paleolithic, Spain)Spain_UP_Azilian | 3.45 |
| 4 | Geometric (Mesolithic, Portugal)Portugal_Geometric_Mesolithic | 5.38 |
| 5 | Iberia Southeast (Mesolithic)Iberia_Southeast_Meso | 5.53 |
| 6 | Sicily Late Mesolithic Castelnovian (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic_Castelnovian | 6.55 |
| 7 | Sicily (Mesolithic)Sicily_Meso | 6.68 |
| 8 | Rochedane (Hunter-Gatherer, France)France_Rochedane | 7.19 |
| 9 | Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)ITA_Villabruna | 7.49 |
| 10 | North Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)Italy_North_Villabruna_HG | 7.75 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish EastFinnish_East | 26.85 |
| 2 | KarelianKarelian | 26.90 |
| 3 | Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast | 26.99 |
| 4 | LatvianLatvian | 27.07 |
| 5 | EstonianEstonian | 27.09 |
| 6 | FinnishFinnish | 27.10 |
| 7 | Finnish NorthFinnish_North | 27.12 |
| 8 | IngrianIngrian | 27.15 |
| 9 | Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ | 27.15 |
| 10 | Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ | 27.18 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.