Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer
Italy (Mesolithic)
Italy_Mesolithic
Italy (Mesolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Mesolithic), with 1 sample from Italy, dated to c. 8760 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Grotta Continenza (Mesolithic), Loschbour (Hunter-Gatherer, Luxembourg) · Luxembourg_Loschbour and England (Mesolithic); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian SZ and Lithuanian PZ.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is U5b.
- Period
- Hunter-Gatherer
- Date
- c. 8760 BCE
- Country
- Italy
- Sampled near
- Grotta Continenza 41.96, 13.54
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- AntonioPritchardScience2019
- Catalogue
Italy_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 | Grotta Continenza (Mesolithic)Grotta_Continenza_Meso | 0.62 |
| 2 | Loschbour (Hunter-Gatherer, Luxembourg) · Luxembourg_LoschbourLuxembourg_Loschbour | 3.91 |
| 3 | England (Mesolithic)England_Mesolithic | 3.94 |
| 4 | Nouvelle Aquitaine (Mesolithic, France)France_NouvelleAquitaine_Mesolithic | 4.02 |
| 5 | Loschbour (Hunter-Gatherer, Luxembourg) · LUX_LoschbourLUX_Loschbour | 4.05 |
| 6 | Ireland (Mesolithic)Ireland_Mesolithic | 4.57 |
| 7 | Wales (Mesolithic) · Wales_MesoWales_Meso | 4.88 |
| 8 | Wales (Mesolithic) · Wales_MesolithicWales_Mesolithic | 5.11 |
| 9 | Nouvelle Aquitaine (Mesolithic)Nouvelle_Aquitaine_Meso | 5.11 |
| 10 | Tagliente LPaleolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)Italy_Tagliente_LPaleolithic | 5.16 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LatvianLatvian | 36.61 |
| 2 | Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ | 36.67 |
| 3 | Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ | 36.69 |
| 4 | EstonianEstonian | 36.85 |
| 5 | Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast | 37.06 |
| 6 | Finnish EastFinnish_East | 37.11 |
| 7 | KarelianKarelian | 37.18 |
| 8 | FinnishFinnish | 37.24 |
| 9 | Lithuanian VALithuanian_VA | 37.28 |
| 10 | IngrianIngrian | 37.30 |
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.