Ancient population · Medieval

Pskov VA (Medieval)

Name: Pskov VA (Medieval) (Pskov_VA)
Creator: Genoplot

Pskov_VA

Pskov VA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Pskov_VA), with 1 sample from Pskov Oblast, Russia, dated to c. 1000 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Krakauer Berg (Medieval), Himera 480BCE 3 (Iron Age, Sicily) and Baltic (Medieval, Estonia); the nearest living populations are Lithuanian VA, Lithuanian PA and Russian Pskov.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is U2e.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 1000 CE
Country: Russia
Origin: Pskov Oblast, Russia
Sampled near: Pskov 57.82, 28.33
Samples: 1
Published in: MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
Catalogue: Pskov_VA

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Krakauer Berg (Medieval)`MA_Krakauer_Berg`	3.56
2	Himera 480BCE 3 (Iron Age, Sicily)`Sicily_Himera_480BCE_3`	3.60
3	Baltic (Medieval, Estonia)`Baltic_EST_MA`	4.00
4	Golden Horde Euro (Medieval, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_GoldenHordeEuro`	4.06
5	Estonia (Medieval)`Estonia_Medieval`	4.20
6	Bodzia VA (Medieval)`Bodzia_VA`	4.20
7	Golden Horde Euro (Medieval)`Golden_Horde_Euro`	4.21
8	Viking (Medieval, Poland)`Poland_Viking`	4.42
9	Czech (Medieval)`Czech_Medieval`	4.47
10	Ukraine (Medieval)`Ukraine_Medieval`	4.53

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Lithuanian VA`Lithuanian_VA`	3.65
2	Lithuanian PA`Lithuanian_PA`	3.79
3	Russian Pskov`Russian_Pskov`	3.86
4	Lithuanian RA`Lithuanian_RA`	4.04
5	Ukrainian Rivne`Ukrainian_Rivne`	4.18
6	Lithuanian SZ`Lithuanian_SZ`	4.20
7	Ukrainian Chernihiv`Ukrainian_Chernihiv`	4.33
8	Russian Kursk`Russian_Kursk`	4.45
9	Ukrainian Zhytomyr`Ukrainian_Zhytomyr`	4.49
10	Latvian`Latvian`	4.49

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a3 R-BY60917

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

U2e2a1d

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`VK159`	M	900-1100 CE	Pskov	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a3 R-BY60917	U2e2a1d