Ancient population · Neolithic
Portugal (Middle Neolithic)
Portugal_MN
Portugal (Middle Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Portugal_MN), with 2 samples from Portugal, dated to c. 4000–2430 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to MLN (Chalcolithic, Spain), Portugal (Chalcolithic) and Iberia SW CA (Chalcolithic); the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Basque Soule.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include H3 and U8a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 4000–2430 BCE
- Country
- Portugal
- Sampled near
- Lorga de Dine 40.56, -7.87
- Sites
- Lorga de Dine
Lugar do Canto - Samples
- 2
- Catalogue
Portugal_MN.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 | MLN (Chalcolithic, Spain)Spain_MLN | 1.04 |
| 2 | Portugal (Chalcolithic)Portugal_C | 1.25 |
| 3 | Iberia SW CA (Chalcolithic)Iberia_SW_CA | 1.27 |
| 4 | France (Neolithic)France_N | 1.50 |
| 5 | SE Iberia CA (Chalcolithic, Spain)Spain_SE_Iberia_CA | 1.54 |
| 6 | Spain (Chalcolithic)Spain_C | 1.55 |
| 7 | SW Iberia CA (Chalcolithic, Spain)Spain_SW_Iberia_CA | 1.69 |
| 8 | Ireland (Middle Neolithic) · Ireland_MNIreland_MN | 1.80 |
| 9 | Scotland (Neolithic)Scotland_N | 1.84 |
| 10 | La Clape (Late Neolithic–Early–Middle Bronze Age, France)France_LaClape_LN_EMBA | 1.93 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sardinia NSardinia_N | 4.17 |
| 2 | SardinianSardinian | 5.80 |
| 3 | Basque SouleBasque_Soule | 9.36 |
| 4 | Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North | 9.44 |
| 5 | Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish | 9.71 |
| 6 | Basque BaztanBasque_Baztan | 9.77 |
| 7 | Basque Lower NavarreBasque_Lower_Navarre | 9.80 |
| 8 | Basque Navarre CenterBasque_Navarre_Center | 9.87 |
| 9 | Croatia NCroatia_N | 9.87 |
| 10 | Basque GipuzkoaBasque_Gipuzkoa | 9.89 |
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.