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
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.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)Saaremaa_EVA2.21
2Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval)Viking_Age_Sigtuna2.30
3Ladoga VA (Medieval)Ladoga_VA2.33
4Norway (Iron Age)Norway_IA2.34
5Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)Estonia_EarlyViking2.40
6Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman2.48
7South (Iron Age)South_IA2.58
8Mid VA (Medieval)Mid_VA2.65
9Isle Of Man Viking (Medieval)IsleOfMan_Viking2.67
10Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA2.73
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SwedishSwedish2.76
2NorwegianNorwegian3.33
3DanishDanish3.48
4IcelandicIcelandic3.54
5German HamburgGerman_Hamburg3.87
6OrcadianOrcadian4.17
7DutchDutch4.33
8ScottishScottish4.39
9ShetlandicShetlandic4.45
10IrishIrish4.48

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
VK523F1-1000 CEMelemI1a1