Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Latvia (Hunter-Gatherer)

Latvia_HG

Latvia (Hunter-Gatherer) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Latvia_HG), with 13 samples from Latvia, dated to c. 6020–4770 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Latvia (Middle Neolithic), Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania) and Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Romania); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian SZ and Lithuanian PZ.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I2a (6) and R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a (7), U2e, U4a and U4b.

Date
c. 6020–4770 BCE
Country
Latvia
Sampled near
Zvejnieki 56.28, 25.13
Samples
13
Catalogue
Latvia_HG
Latvia_HG.SG variant

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
1Latvia (Middle Neolithic)Latvia_MN2.74
2Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania)Lithuania_EMN_Narva2.90
3Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Romania)Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic3.52
4Motala (Hunter-Gatherer, Sweden)Sweden_Motala_HG4.60
5Sweden (Mesolithic) · Sweden_MesolithicSweden_Mesolithic4.82
6Narva twin Kretuonas2 (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania)Lithuania_EMN_Narva_twin.Kretuonas24.83
7Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Serbia)Serbia_IronGates_Mesolithic4.83
8Vlasac Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Serbia)Serbia_Vlasac_LateMesolithic5.00
9Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Estonia)Estonia_EMN_Narva5.08
10Iron Gates (Hunter-Gatherer)Iron_Gates_HG5.22
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1LatvianLatvian22.70
2Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ22.92
3Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ22.93
4EstonianEstonian23.10
5Finnish EastFinnish_East23.19
6KarelianKarelian23.30
7Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast23.44
8IngrianIngrian23.54
9FinnishFinnish23.63
10Lithuanian VZLithuanian_VZ23.66

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

8 men with a call

mtDNA

10 individuals with a call

Individuals 17

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I4432Latvia_HGM6072-5920 calBCEZvejniekiR1b1a1a R-FTA35755U5a2c
I4434Latvia_HGM5611-5382 calBCEZvejniekiR1b1a1a R-FTA35755U5a2d
I4438Latvia_HGM5375-5216 calBCEZvejniekiI2a1a1b1b I-BY33170U4b1a
I4440Latvia_HGM5216-5016 calBCEZvejniekiI2a1a1b1b I-BY33170U4a1
I4441Latvia_HGM4841-4711 calBCEZvejniekiI2a1b1a2 I-CTS10057U5a1c
I4551Latvia_HGM5788-5663 calBCEZvejniekiI2a1b1a2b I-BY3797U5a2
I4552Latvia_HGF5477-5374 calBCEZvejniekiU5a1d
I4553Latvia_HGM5480-5375 calBCEZvejniekiI2a1b1a2b I-BY3797U5a1c
I4595Latvia_HGF5729-5638 calBCEZvejniekiU2e1h
I4596Latvia_HGM6069-5984 calBCEZvejniekiI2a1b1a2b I-BY3797U5a2d
I4628Latvia_HG
I4632Latvia_HG
Latvia_HG2_noUDG.SGLatvia_HG.SG
I4439 outlierLatvia_HGM5769-5628 calBCEZvejniekiR1b1a1a R-FTA35755U5b1d1
I4550 outlierLatvia_HGM6633-6470 calBCEZvejniekiQ1b Q-Y2700U5b2a
I4626 outlierLatvia_HGM5838-5631 calBCEZvejniekiR1b1a1 R-P297U2e1h
I4630 outlierLatvia_HGM7471-7073 calBCEZvejniekiR1b1a1b1a R-L51U5a2c