Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Geometric (Mesolithic, Portugal)

Portugal_Geometric_Mesolithic

Geometric (Mesolithic, Portugal) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Portugal_Geometric_Mesolithic), with 1 sample from Portugal, dated to c. 6120 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Iberia Southeast (Mesolithic), Spain (Hunter-Gatherer) and Iberia Northwest (Mesolithic); the nearest living populations are Finnish East, Karelian and Finnish Southeast.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is U5b.

Date
c. 6120 BCE
Country
Portugal
Sampled near
Moita do Sebastiao 39.25, -8.65
Samples
1
Catalogue
Portugal_Geometric_Mesolithic

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
1Iberia Southeast (Mesolithic)Iberia_Southeast_Meso3.99
2Spain (Hunter-Gatherer)Spain_HG5.28
3Iberia Northwest (Mesolithic)Iberia_Northwest_Meso5.38
4Iberia Northeast Azilian (Upper Paleolithic)Iberia_Northeast_UP_Azilian5.85
5Azilian (Upper Paleolithic, Spain)Spain_UP_Azilian5.85
6Iberia El Miron (Hunter-Gatherer)Iberia_ElMiron6.97
7El Miron (Hunter-Gatherer, Spain)Spain_ElMiron7.16
8Sicily Late Mesolithic Castelnovian (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic_Castelnovian10.56
9Rochedane (Hunter-Gatherer, France)France_Rochedane10.67
10Sicily (Mesolithic)Sicily_Meso10.79
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Finnish EastFinnish_East25.99
2KarelianKarelian26.04
3Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast26.06
4VepsianVepsian26.37
5IngrianIngrian26.38
6Finnish NorthFinnish_North26.39
7FinnishFinnish26.39
8Finnish CentralFinnish_Central26.42
9Russian PinegaRussian_Pinega26.44
10Russian PinezhskyRussian_Pinezhsky26.58

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
CMS001_mergedF6238-5986 calBCEMoita do SebastiaoU5b1