Ancient population · Iron Age

North (Iron Age)

Name: North (Iron Age) (North_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

North_IA

North (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (North_IA), with 1 sample from Nordland, Norway, dated to c. 350 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland), Late Norse (Medieval, Greenland) and Sealand (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Icelandic, Orcadian and Norwegian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is J1c.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 350 CE
Country: Norway
Origin: Nordland, Norway
Sampled near: Steigen øvre 67.94, 14.98
Samples: 1
Published in: MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
Catalogue: North_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	Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland)`Greenland_EarlyNorse`	2.65
2	Late Norse (Medieval, Greenland)`Greenland_LateNorse`	2.74
3	Sealand (Iron Age)`Sealand_IA`	2.87
4	Norway (Iron Age)`Norway_IA`	2.94
5	Greenland E VA (Medieval)`GreenlandE_VA`	3.02
6	Sweden (Iron Age) · SWE_IA`SWE_IA`	3.04
7	Scotland (Iron Age)`Scotland_IA`	3.04
8	Sweden (Iron Age) · Sweden_IA`Sweden_IA`	3.09
9	EM (Faroes)`Faroes_EM`	3.10
10	Collegno (Medieval)`Collegno_MA`	3.17

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Icelandic`Icelandic`	3.29
2	Orcadian`Orcadian`	3.61
3	Norwegian`Norwegian`	3.69
4	Danish`Danish`	3.71
5	Swedish`Swedish`	3.74
6	Scottish`Scottish`	3.84
7	Irish`Irish`	3.95
8	English`English`	4.17
9	English Cornwall`English_Cornwall`	4.18
10	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	4.24

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a4d R-Y16225

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

J1c2c1

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	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`VK418`	M	300-400 CE	Steigen øvre	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a4d R-Y16225	J1c2c1