Ancient population · Iron Age
Mid (Iron Age)
Mid_IA
Mid (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mid_IA), with 1 sample from Trøndelag, Norway, dated to c. 500 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Saaremaa EVA (Medieval), Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval) and Ladoga VA (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is I1a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 500 CE
- Country
- Norway
- Origin
- Trøndelag, Norway
- Sampled near
- Melem 63.70, 9.75
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
- Catalogue
Mid_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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)Saaremaa_EVA | 2.21 |
| 2 | Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval)Viking_Age_Sigtuna | 2.30 |
| 3 | Ladoga VA (Medieval)Ladoga_VA | 2.33 |
| 4 | Norway (Iron Age)Norway_IA | 2.34 |
| 5 | Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)Estonia_EarlyViking | 2.40 |
| 6 | Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman | 2.48 |
| 7 | South (Iron Age)South_IA | 2.58 |
| 8 | Mid VA (Medieval)Mid_VA | 2.65 |
| 9 | Isle Of Man Viking (Medieval)IsleOfMan_Viking | 2.67 |
| 10 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 2.73 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SwedishSwedish | 2.76 |
| 2 | NorwegianNorwegian | 3.33 |
| 3 | DanishDanish | 3.48 |
| 4 | IcelandicIcelandic | 3.54 |
| 5 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 3.87 |
| 6 | OrcadianOrcadian | 4.17 |
| 7 | DutchDutch | 4.33 |
| 8 | ScottishScottish | 4.39 |
| 9 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 4.45 |
| 10 | IrishIrish | 4.48 |
Haplogroups
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
VK523 | F | 1-1000 CE | Melem | I1a1 |