Ancient population · Iron Age

Sardinia 1 (Iron Age, Italy)

Italy_Sardinia_IA_1

Sardinia 1 (Iron Age, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sardinia_IA_1), with 1 sample from Italy, dated to c. 290 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Punic (Iron Age, Tunisia), Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily) and Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece); the nearest living populations are Belmonte Jew, Italian Calabria and Italian Campania.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 290 BCE
Country
Italy
Sampled near
Usellus 39.81, 8.84
Samples
1
Catalogue
Italy_Sardinia_IA_1

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.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Punic (Iron Age, Tunisia)Tunisia_Punic3.37
2Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE3.56
3Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean3.64
4Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_BA_Mycenaean3.65
5Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_13.68
6Bivio Roman (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Bivio_Roman3.88
7Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)Bulgaria_EIA3.98
8Sardinia Punic 2 (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_24.21
9Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age)Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA4.22
10Bulgaria (Iron Age)Bulgaria_IA4.28
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Belmonte JewBelmonte_Jew4.72
2Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria4.78
3Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania4.89
4Sicilian EastSicilian_East5.01
5MalteseMaltese5.04
6Italian LazioItalian_Lazio5.06
7Italian JewItalian_Jew5.08
8Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia5.13
9Italian BasilicataItalian_Basilicata5.17
10Sicilian WestSicilian_West5.20

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.

SampleSexDateSite
I10366F389-208 calBCEUsellus