Ancient population · Iron Age

Sardinia Punic 2 (Iron Age, Italy)

Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_2

Sardinia Punic 2 (Iron Age, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_2), with 2 samples from Italy, dated to c. 720–550 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sardinia Sant Imbenia Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy), Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy) and Sicily (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Sardinian, French Corsica and Belmonte Jew.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H13b and J1c.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 720–550 BCE
Country
Italy
Sampled near
Monte Sirai 39.18, 8.49
Samples
2
Catalogue
Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_2

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
1Sardinia Sant Imbenia Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_SantImbenia_RomanImperial2.56
2Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sicily_LBA2.64
3Sicily (Iron Age)Sicily_IA3.00
4Sicily (Early Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sicily_EBA3.06
5Himera East Necropolis (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_East_Necropolis3.36
6Punic (Iron Age, Tunisia)Tunisia_Punic3.74
7Sardinia Roman (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_Roman4.04
8Sicily (Early Bronze Age)Sicily_EBA4.13
9Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE4.19
10Sardinia 1 (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_IA_14.21
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SardinianSardinian4.01
2French CorsicaFrench_Corsica5.28
3Belmonte JewBelmonte_Jew6.20
4Italian LazioItalian_Lazio6.24
5Italian LombardyItalian_Lombardy6.42
6Italian UmbriaItalian_Umbria6.50
7Sicilian WestSicilian_West6.56
8Italian TuscanyItalian_Tuscany6.74
9Italian MarcheItalian_Marche6.76
10Sicilian EastSicilian_East6.83

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
MSR002M796-570 calBCEMonte SiraiG2a2a1a G-PF3177H13b1
MSR003F800-300 BCEMonte SiraiJ1c3
ORC002 outlierM391-208 calBCES'Orcu ‘e TueriI2a1a1a1a1a1a1e5e I-PF4393HV0j