Ancient population · Iron Age
Norway (Iron Age)
Norway_IA
Norway (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Norway_IA), with 2 samples from Norway, dated to c. 500 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to South (Iron Age), Saaremaa EVA (Medieval) and Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Icelandic and Norwegian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include I1a and K2a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 500 CE
- Country
- Norway
- Sampled near
- Melem 61.46, 9.67
- Sites
- Melem
Skien nor - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
- Catalogue
Norway_IA.SGvariant
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 | South (Iron Age)South_IA | 1.41 |
| 2 | Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)Saaremaa_EVA | 1.66 |
| 3 | Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)Estonia_EarlyViking | 1.67 |
| 4 | Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman | 2.04 |
| 5 | Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA | 2.09 |
| 6 | North VA (Medieval)North_VA | 2.21 |
| 7 | Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking | 2.23 |
| 8 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 2.27 |
| 9 | Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_EarlyViking | 2.29 |
| 10 | Saxon (Early Medieval, England)England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon | 2.32 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SwedishSwedish | 2.18 |
| 2 | IcelandicIcelandic | 2.20 |
| 3 | NorwegianNorwegian | 2.42 |
| 4 | DanishDanish | 2.47 |
| 5 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.12 |
| 6 | ScottishScottish | 3.28 |
| 7 | IrishIrish | 3.31 |
| 8 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 3.35 |
| 9 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.47 |
| 10 | DutchDutch | 3.51 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 4
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.