Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Sicily Late Mesolithic Castelnovian (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)

Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic_Castelnovian

Sicily Late Mesolithic Castelnovian (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic_Castelnovian), with 7 samples from Italy, dated to c. 6680–6330 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sicily (Mesolithic), Syltholm LM (Early Neolithic, Denmark) and Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian SZ and Lithuanian PZ.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include U5b (5), U4a and U5a.

Date
c. 6680–6330 BCE
Country
Italy
Sampled near
Grotta dell'Uzzo 38.11, 12.79
Samples
7
Catalogue
Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic_Castelnovian

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
1Sicily (Mesolithic)Sicily_Meso0.89
2Syltholm LM (Early Neolithic, Denmark)Denmark_Syltholm_LM_EN2.74
3Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)ITA_Villabruna2.86
4North Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)Italy_North_Villabruna_HG3.11
5Sicily Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic3.62
6Croatia (Mesolithic–Hunter-Gatherer)Croatia_Mesolithic_HG3.64
7BDB (Mesolithic)Meso_BDB3.93
8Germany (Mesolithic)Germany_Mesolithic4.18
9Lithuania (Mesolithic)Lithuania_Mesolithic4.22
10Rochedane (Hunter-Gatherer, France)France_Rochedane4.67
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1LatvianLatvian28.79
2Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ28.88
3Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ28.93
4EstonianEstonian29.05
5Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast29.30
6Finnish EastFinnish_East29.33
7KarelianKarelian29.40
8IngrianIngrian29.52
9Lithuanian VALithuanian_VA29.52
10FinnishFinnish29.53

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

7 individuals with a call

Individuals 7

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
UZZ040_noUDGM6416-6245 calBCEGrotta dell'UzzoI2a1b1 I-Y3259U4a2f
UZZ069_noUDGF6773-6597 calBCEGrotta dell'UzzoU5b2b
UZZ079_noUDGF6700-6550 BCEGrotta dell'UzzoU5b3
UZZ080_noUDGF6700-6550 BCEGrotta dell'UzzoU5b2b1a
UZZ081_noUDGM6693-6572 calBCEGrotta dell'UzzoI2a1b I-M436U5b3
UZZ082_noUDGF6700-6550 BCEGrotta dell'UzzoU5a1
UZZ4446_noUDGF6633-6469 calBCEGrotta dell'UzzoU5b2b