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Norway (Mesolithic) · Norway_Mesolithic

Norway_Mesolithic

Norway (Mesolithic) · Norway_Mesolithic is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Norway_Mesolithic), with 2 samples from Norway, dated to c. 7410 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Norway (Mesolithic) · NOR_Meso, Norway (Neolithic–Hunter-Gatherer) · N_HG and Ukraine (Mesolithic); the nearest living populations are Finnish East, Karelian and Russian Pinezhsky.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a (2).

Date
c. 7410 BCE
Country
Norway
Sampled near
Hummervikholmen 58.06, 7.74
Samples
2
Catalogue
Norway_Mesolithic.SG variant

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.

Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Finnish EastFinnish_East16.32
2KarelianKarelian16.58
3Russian PinezhskyRussian_Pinezhsky16.92
4IngrianIngrian17.02
5VepsianVepsian17.03
6Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast17.04
7Russian PinegaRussian_Pinega17.06
8Finnish NorthFinnish_North17.06
9Finnish CentralFinnish_Central17.16
10FinnishFinnish17.23

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
Hum1_noUDG.SGF7502-7325 calBCEHummervikholmenU5a1
Hum2_noUDG.SGM7502-7325 calBCEHummervikholmenI2a2a I-S6635U5a1d