Ancient population · Iron Age

Macedonia (Iron Age)

Name: Macedonia (Iron Age) (Macedonia_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Macedonia_IA

Macedonia (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Macedonia_IA), with 4 samples from North Macedonia, dated to c. 710–600 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Albania (Bronze Age–Iron Age), Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age) and Popova CA (Chalcolithic, Croatia); the nearest living populations are Italian Tuscany, French Corsica and Italian Emilia.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2a (2) and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H, H8c, J1c and U2e.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 710–600 BCE
Country: North Macedonia
Sampled near: Marvinci Lisičin Dol 41.20, 21.64
Sites: Marvinci Lisičin Dol (2)
Plaosnik-Ohrid (2)
Samples: 4
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Macedonia_IA

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	Albania (Bronze Age–Iron Age)`Albania_BA_IA`	1.57
2	Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Montenegro_MLBA`	1.73
3	Popova CA (Chalcolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_Popova_CA`	2.01
4	Pop CA (Chalcolithic)`Pop_CA`	2.03
5	Macedonia (Bronze Age)`Macedonia_BA`	2.18
6	Zadar Roman (Antiquity, Croatia)`Croatia_Zadar_Roman`	2.23
7	Viminacium Roman elite 3 (Antiquity, Serbia)`Serbia_Viminacium_Roman_elite_3`	2.40
8	Emona Roman (Antiquity, Slovenia)`Slovenia_Emona_Roman`	2.56
9	Syrmian Srem Group (Iron Age, Hungary)`Hungary_IA_Syrmian_SremGroup`	2.58
10	Albania (Medieval) · ALB_MA`ALB_MA`	2.60

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Italian Tuscany`Italian_Tuscany`	2.43
2	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	2.55
3	Italian Emilia`Italian_Emilia`	2.59
4	Italian Lombardy`Italian_Lombardy`	2.59
5	Italian Piedmont`Italian_Piedmont`	2.64
6	Italian Bergamo`Italian_Bergamo`	2.77
7	Albania Modern`Albania_Modern`	2.78
8	Albanian`Albanian`	2.79
9	Italian Umbria`Italian_Umbria`	2.90
10	Swiss Italian`Swiss_Italian`	2.95

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

J2a1a2b2 J-Y13128 2
R1b1a1b1b3a1a R-CTS1450

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 10

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
`I10383`	F	787-545 calBCE	Marvinci Lisičin Dol		U2e1a1
`I10384`	M	700-500 BCE	Plaosnik-Ohrid	J2a1a2b2 J-Y13128	H8c
`I10388`	M	795-567 calBCE	Plaosnik-Ohrid	J2a1a2b2 J-Y13128	J1c2
`I8112`	M	783-549 calBCE	Marvinci Lisičin Dol	R1b1a1b1b3a1a R-CTS1450	H
`I10379` outlier	F	768-540 calBCE	Buchinci-Skopje		K1a
`I10381` outlier	M	765-489 calBCE	Govrlevo-Skopje	C1a2 C-Y83490	U5a1c
`I10385` outlier	F	768-540 calBCE	Plaosnik-Ohrid		H1e
`I10387` outlier	F	700-500 BCE	Plaosnik-Ohrid		J1c
`I10389` outlier	F	700-500 BCE	Plaosnik-Ohrid		K1a3a
`I7233` outlier	F	900-809 calBCE	Vodovrati		H35