Ancient population · Neolithic

Sicily (Middle Neolithic, Italy)

Name: Sicily (Middle Neolithic, Italy) (Italy_Sicily_MN)
Creator: Genoplot

Italy_Sicily_MN

Sicily (Middle Neolithic, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sicily_MN), with 2 samples from Italy, dated to c. 4880–4770 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to ALBK Szakalhat (Middle Neolithic, Hungary), Czech (Neolithic) and Bodrogkeresztur (Chalcolithic, Romania); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Sardinian and Romania N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup C1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1e and K1b.

Period: Neolithic
Date: c. 4880–4770 BCE
Country: Italy
Sampled near: Fossato di Stretto Partana 37.72, 12.92
Samples: 2
Published in: FernandesReichNatEcolEvol2020
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue: Italy_Sicily_MN

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	ALBK Szakalhat (Middle Neolithic, Hungary)`Hungary_MN_ALBK_Szakalhat`	1.57
2	Czech (Neolithic)`Czech_N`	1.63
3	Bodrogkeresztur (Chalcolithic, Romania)`Romania_C_Bodrogkeresztur`	1.69
4	Lasinja (Chalcolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_C_Lasinja`	1.78
5	Tiszapolgar (Early Chalcolithic, Hungary)`Hungary_EarlyC_Tiszapolgar`	1.78
6	Lingolsheim (Middle Neolithic)`MN_Lingolsheim`	1.79
7	Baden (Late Chalcolithic, Hungary)`Hungary_LateC_Baden`	1.85
8	Balaton Lasinja (Chalcolithic, Hungary)`Hungary_C_Balaton_Lasinja`	2.04
9	Ripabianca di Monterado (Neolithic)`Ripabianca_di_Monterado_N`	2.05
10	Sicily (Early Neolithic)`Sicily_EN`	2.06

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	3.79
2	Sardinian`Sardinian`	4.20
3	Romania N`Romania_N`	4.23
4	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	4.52
5	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	5.20
6	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	5.62
7	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	10.04
8	Belmonte Jew`Belmonte_Jew`	11.02
9	Italian Lazio`Italian_Lazio`	11.18
10	Italian Lombardy`Italian_Lombardy`	11.20

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

C1a2 C-FT59486

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

H1e
K1b1

Individuals 5

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	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I4063`	F	4987-4794 calBCE	Fossato di Stretto Partana		K1b1
`I4064`	M	4841-4711 calBCE	Fossato di Stretto Partana	C1a2 C-FT59486	H1e
`I4062` outlier	F	4984-4784 calBCE	Fossato di Stretto Partana		H1e
`I4065` outlier	F	4988-4735 calBCE	Fossato di Stretto Partana		K2b1
`UZZ061_noUDG` outlier	M	4879-4719 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo	C1a2 C-F16270	K1a2