Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer
Ireland (Mesolithic)
Ireland_Mesolithic
Ireland (Mesolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ireland_Mesolithic), with 2 samples from Ireland, dated to c. 4710–4050 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sicily Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy), Loschbour (Hunter-Gatherer, Luxembourg) · Luxembourg_Loschbour and England (Mesolithic); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian PZ and Lithuanian SZ.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a and U5b.
- Period
- Hunter-Gatherer
- Date
- c. 4710–4050 BCE
- Country
- Ireland
- Sampled near
- Killuragh 53.45, -8.33
- Sites
- Killuragh
Sramore - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- CassidyBradleyNature2020
- Catalogue
Ireland_Mesolithic.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 | Sicily Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic | 2.46 |
| 2 | Loschbour (Hunter-Gatherer, Luxembourg) · Luxembourg_LoschbourLuxembourg_Loschbour | 2.73 |
| 3 | England (Mesolithic)England_Mesolithic | 2.84 |
| 4 | Nouvelle Aquitaine (Mesolithic, France)France_NouvelleAquitaine_Mesolithic | 3.08 |
| 5 | BDB (Mesolithic)Meso_BDB | 3.11 |
| 6 | Germany (Mesolithic)Germany_Mesolithic | 3.14 |
| 7 | Wales (Mesolithic) · Wales_MesolithicWales_Mesolithic | 3.27 |
| 8 | Wales (Mesolithic) · Wales_MesoWales_Meso | 3.27 |
| 9 | Tagliente LPaleolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)Italy_Tagliente_LPaleolithic | 3.56 |
| 10 | Tagliente Late Paleo (Hunter-Gatherer)Tagliente_Late_Paleo | 3.68 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LatvianLatvian | 33.02 |
| 2 | Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ | 33.09 |
| 3 | Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ | 33.10 |
| 4 | EstonianEstonian | 33.32 |
| 5 | Finnish EastFinnish_East | 33.69 |
| 6 | Lithuanian VZLithuanian_VZ | 33.72 |
| 7 | Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast | 33.74 |
| 8 | KarelianKarelian | 33.76 |
| 9 | Lithuanian VALithuanian_VA | 33.78 |
| 10 | FinnishFinnish | 33.81 |
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.