Ancient population · Neolithic

South (Neolithic, Italy)

Name: South (Neolithic, Italy) (Italy_South_N)
Creator: Genoplot

Italy_South_N

South (Neolithic, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_South_N), with 3 samples from Italy, dated to c. 5770–5530 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Grotta Continenza (Neolithic), Saxony LBK (Neolithic, Germany) and Nea Nikomedeia (Early Neolithic, Greece); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Macedonia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a, N1a and T2c.

Period: Neolithic
Date: c. 5770–5530 BCE
Country: Italy
Sampled near: Grotta Continenza 41.96, 13.54
Samples: 3
Published in: AntonioPritchardScience2019
Catalogue: Italy_South_N.SG variant
Italy_South_N_oWHG.SG outliers

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	Grotta Continenza (Neolithic)`Grotta_Continenza_N`	0.45
2	Saxony LBK (Neolithic, Germany)`Germany_Saxony_LBK_N`	1.60
3	Nea Nikomedeia (Early Neolithic, Greece)`Greece_NeaNikomedeia_EN`	1.61
4	Sopot (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_MN_Sopot`	1.69
5	LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany)`Germany_EN_LBK`	1.78
6	Vinca (Middle Neolithic, Hungary)`Hungary_MN_Vinca`	1.84
7	Popova (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_Popova_MN`	1.86
8	LBK HBS (Neolithic)`LBK_HBS`	1.98
9	Pop (Middle Neolithic)`Pop_MN`	1.99
10	LBK (Neolithic)`LBK_N`	2.09

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	1.47
2	Romania N`Romania_N`	2.30
3	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	2.89
4	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	3.86
5	Sardinian`Sardinian`	6.64
6	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	8.12
7	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	11.41
8	Belmonte Jew`Belmonte_Jew`	11.80
9	Italian Lazio`Italian_Lazio`	11.88
10	Italian Calabria`Italian_Calabria`	12.01

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

G2a2a1a2b1b G-BY109656

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 6

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	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`R10.SG`	`Italy_South_N.SG`	F	5721-5634 calBCE	Grotta Continenza		T2c1
`R3.SG`	`Italy_South_N.SG`	F	5831-5723 calBCE	Grotta Continenza		N1a1a1
`R9.SG`	`Italy_South_N.SG`	M	5611-5479 calBCE	Grotta Continenza	G2a2a1a2b1b G-BY109656	K1a4a1
`R2.SG` outlier	`Italy_South_N.SG`	F	6068-5993 calBCE	Grotta Continenza		K1a2
`R6.SG` outlier	`Italy_South_N_oWHG.SG`	M	5318-5084 calBCE	Grotta Continenza	R1b R-V88	K1a1
`R8.SG` outlier	`Italy_South_N.SG`	F	850-550 BCE	Rhirhi		M13a2