Ancient population · Iron Age

Glinoe Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova)

Moldova_Glinoe_Scythian

Glinoe Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Moldova_Glinoe_Scythian), with 4 samples from Moldova, dated to c. 300–270 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova), Mid Avar (Medieval, Hungary) and South Transdanubia Late Avar (Medieval, Hungary); the nearest living populations are Turkish Thessaly, Turkish North Macedonia and Swiss Italian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a (2), H5b and H8c.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 300–270 BCE
Country
Moldova
Sampled near
Hlinaia 46.65, 29.81
Samples
4
Catalogue
Moldova_Glinoe_Scythian.SG variant
Moldova_Glinoe_Scythian_o2.SG outliers

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
1Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova)Scythian_MDA0.67
2Mid Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_MidAvar2.22
3South Transdanubia Late Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_SouthTransdanubia_LAvar3.12
4North Hungary Mountains Late Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_NorthHungaryMountains_LAvar3.44
5EMedieval Alemanic SEurope (Medieval, Germany)Germany_EMedieval_Alemanic_SEurope3.48
6Emona Roman (Antiquity, Slovenia)Slovenia_Emona_Roman3.51
7Palazzo Della Cancelleria Roman possible (Medieval, Italy)Italy_PalazzoDellaCancelleria_Roman_Medieval_possible3.51
8Rome (Medieval)Rome_MA3.53
9Erfurt2 (Medieval)MA_Erfurt23.57
10Albania (Medieval) · ALB_MAALB_MA3.63
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Turkish ThessalyTurkish_Thessaly2.94
2Turkish North MacedoniaTurkish_North_Macedonia3.17
3Swiss ItalianSwiss_Italian3.33
4Greek ThessalyGreek_Thessaly3.34
5Greek Central MacedoniaGreek_Central_Macedonia3.41
6Rumelia EastRumelia_East3.45
7Patriyot West MacedoniaPatriyot_West_Macedonia3.46
8Italian EmiliaItalian_Emilia3.47
9Pomak Almopia PlainPomak_Almopia_Plain3.54
10Italian TuscanyItalian_Tuscany3.55

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 7

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
scy192_noUDG.SGMoldova_Glinoe_Scythian.SGF400-150 BCEHlinaiaH8c
scy197_noUDG.SGMoldova_Glinoe_Scythian.SGM400-150 BCEHlinaiaE1b1b1a1b1U5a1a1
scy300_noUDG.SGMoldova_Glinoe_Scythian.SGF395-206 calBCEHlinaiaH5b
scy305_noUDG.SGMoldova_Glinoe_Scythian.SGM396-207 calBCEHlinaiaR1b1a1b1b3U5a2b
scy301_noUDG.SG outlierMoldova_Glinoe_Scythian.SGM390-202 calBCEHlinaiaF FU5b2a3
scy303_noUDG.SG outlierMoldova_Glinoe_Scythian_o2.SGF386-198 calBCEHlinaiaU5a1a2b
scy311_noUDG.SG outlierMoldova_Glinoe_Scythian.SGF391-198 calBCEHlinaiaT2b