Ancient population · Iron Age
Oland (Iron Age)
Oland_IA
Oland (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Oland_IA), with 2 samples from Öland, Sweden, dated to c. 300–400 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Saaremaa EVA (Medieval), Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia) and Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Icelandic and Norwegian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup N1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1a and H1s.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 300–400 CE
- Country
- Sweden
- Origin
- Öland, Sweden
- Sampled near
- Oland 56.88, 16.72
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
- Catalogue
Oland_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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)Saaremaa_EVA | 1.83 |
| 2 | Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)Estonia_EarlyViking | 1.94 |
| 3 | Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval)Viking_Age_Sigtuna | 2.05 |
| 4 | Hiddestorf Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_Hiddestorf_Saxon_EMedieval | 2.07 |
| 5 | Ladoga VA (Medieval)Ladoga_VA | 2.25 |
| 6 | Denmark (Iron Age)Denmark_IA | 2.34 |
| 7 | Mid VA (Medieval)Mid_VA | 2.47 |
| 8 | Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman | 2.48 |
| 9 | Norway (Iron Age)Norway_IA | 2.52 |
| 10 | Viking (Medieval, Sweden)Sweden_Viking | 2.59 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SwedishSwedish | 2.31 |
| 2 | IcelandicIcelandic | 2.83 |
| 3 | NorwegianNorwegian | 2.86 |
| 4 | DanishDanish | 2.98 |
| 5 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 3.48 |
| 6 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.71 |
| 7 | DutchDutch | 3.84 |
| 8 | ScottishScottish | 3.84 |
| 9 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.96 |
| 10 | IrishIrish | 4.07 |
Haplogroups
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.