Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Sicily Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)

Name: Sicily Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy) (Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic)
Creator: Genoplot

Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic

Sicily Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic), with 2 samples from Italy, dated to c. 5930–5920 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to North Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy), Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy) and Ireland (Mesolithic); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian SZ and Lithuanian PZ.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a and U5b.

Period: Hunter-Gatherer
Date: c. 5930–5920 BCE
Country: Italy
Sampled near: Grotta dell'Uzzo 38.11, 12.79
Samples: 2
Published in: YuKrauseiScience2022
Catalogue: Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic

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
#	Population	Distance
1	North Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`Italy_North_Villabruna_HG`	2.39
2	Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`ITA_Villabruna`	2.40
3	Ireland (Mesolithic)`Ireland_Mesolithic`	2.46
4	Tagliente LPaleolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`Italy_Tagliente_LPaleolithic`	2.82
5	Sicily (Mesolithic)`Sicily_Meso`	2.83
6	Tagliente (Italy)`ITA_Tagliente`	2.95
7	Tagliente Late Paleo (Hunter-Gatherer)`Tagliente_Late_Paleo`	2.95
8	BDB (Mesolithic)`Meso_BDB`	3.19
9	England (Mesolithic)`England_Mesolithic`	3.21
10	Nouvelle Aquitaine (Mesolithic, France)`France_NouvelleAquitaine_Mesolithic`	3.27

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Latvian`Latvian`	31.62
2	Lithuanian SZ`Lithuanian_SZ`	31.69
3	Lithuanian PZ`Lithuanian_PZ`	31.69
4	Estonian`Estonian`	31.86
5	Finnish East`Finnish_East`	32.19
6	Finnish Southeast`Finnish_Southeast`	32.21
7	Karelian`Karelian`	32.24
8	Finnish`Finnish`	32.31
9	Lithuanian VZ`Lithuanian_VZ`	32.31
10	Lithuanian VA`Lithuanian_VA`	32.32

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

U5a2
U5b3

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	mtDNA
`UZZ071_noUDG`	F	6008-5846 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo	U5a2
`UZZ088_noUDG`	F	5987-5844 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo	U5b3
`UZZ5054_noUDG` outlier	F	8798-8628 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo	U2'3'4'7'8'9