Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Lithuania (Mesolithic)

Name: Lithuania (Mesolithic) (Lithuania_Mesolithic)
Creator: Genoplot

Lithuania_Mesolithic

Lithuania (Mesolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Lithuania_Mesolithic), with 1 sample from Lithuania, dated to c. 6330 BCE.

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

Its mtDNA haplogroup is U4a.

Period: Hunter-Gatherer
Date: c. 6330 BCE
Country: Lithuania
Sampled near: Spiginas 55.77, 22.42
Samples: 1
Published in: MittnikKrauseNatComm2018
Catalogue: Lithuania_Mesolithic

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	Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Serbia)`Serbia_IronGates_Mesolithic`	2.61
2	Syltholm LM (Early Neolithic, Denmark)`Denmark_Syltholm_LM_EN`	3.90
3	Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania)`Lithuania_EMN_Narva`	4.09
4	Sicily Late Mesolithic Castelnovian (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic_Castelnovian`	4.22
5	Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Romania)`Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic`	4.75
6	Vlasac Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Serbia)`Serbia_Vlasac_LateMesolithic`	4.76
7	Sicily (Mesolithic)`Sicily_Meso`	4.82
8	Croatia (Mesolithic–Hunter-Gatherer)`Croatia_Mesolithic_HG`	5.24
9	Koros (Early Neolithic–Hunter-Gatherer, Hungary)`Hungary_EN_HG_Koros`	5.64
10	Latvia (Hunter-Gatherer)`Latvia_HG`	5.69

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Latvian`Latvian`	25.98
2	Lithuanian SZ`Lithuanian_SZ`	26.10
3	Lithuanian PZ`Lithuanian_PZ`	26.15
4	Estonian`Estonian`	26.36
5	Finnish East`Finnish_East`	26.78
6	Finnish Southeast`Finnish_Southeast`	26.78
7	Lithuanian VZ`Lithuanian_VZ`	26.81
8	Lithuanian VA`Lithuanian_VA`	26.83
9	Karelian`Karelian`	26.83
10	Russian Pskov`Russian_Pskov`	26.95

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

U4a2

Individuals 1

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	mtDNA
`Spiginas4`	F	6442-6227 calBCE	Spiginas	U4a2