Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer
Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Romania)
Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic
Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Romania) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic), with 8 samples from Romania, dated to c. 7760–6650 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania), Vlasac Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Serbia) and Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Serbia); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian SZ and Lithuanian PZ.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (5) and I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a (3), H13, K and K1.
- Period
- Hunter-Gatherer
- Date
- c. 7760–6650 BCE
- Country
- Romania
- Sampled near
- Schela-Cladovei 44.58, 22.66
- Sites
- Schela-Cladovei (4)
Ostrovul-Corbului (3) - Samples
- 8
- Catalogue
Romania_IronGates_MesolithicRomania_IronGates_Mesolithic.SGvariantRomania_IronGates_Mesolithic_oEHGoutliers
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 | Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania)Lithuania_EMN_Narva | 1.89 |
| 2 | Vlasac Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Serbia)Serbia_Vlasac_LateMesolithic | 2.60 |
| 3 | Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Serbia)Serbia_IronGates_Mesolithic | 2.88 |
| 4 | Iron Gates (Hunter-Gatherer)Iron_Gates_HG | 3.31 |
| 5 | Latvia (Hunter-Gatherer)Latvia_HG | 3.52 |
| 6 | Narva twin Kretuonas2 (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania)Lithuania_EMN_Narva_twin.Kretuonas2 | 3.83 |
| 7 | Latvia (Middle Neolithic)Latvia_MN | 3.83 |
| 8 | Lithuania (Mesolithic)Lithuania_Mesolithic | 4.75 |
| 9 | Koros (Early Neolithic–Hunter-Gatherer, Hungary)Hungary_EN_HG_Koros | 4.85 |
| 10 | Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Estonia)Estonia_EMN_Narva | 6.40 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LatvianLatvian | 21.92 |
| 2 | Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ | 22.06 |
| 3 | Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ | 22.10 |
| 4 | EstonianEstonian | 22.27 |
| 5 | Finnish EastFinnish_East | 22.68 |
| 6 | Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast | 22.70 |
| 7 | Lithuanian VZLithuanian_VZ | 22.76 |
| 8 | KarelianKarelian | 22.78 |
| 9 | Lithuanian VALithuanian_VA | 22.80 |
| 10 | IngrianIngrian | 22.85 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 9
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.
| Sample | Catalogue entry | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I4081 | Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic | M | 7941-7606 calBCE | Ostrovul-Corbului | R1b R-L754 | H13 |
I4582 | Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic | F | 7455-7184 calBCE | Ostrovul-Corbului | K | |
I4607 | Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic | M | 7446-6643 calBCE | Schela-Cladovei | I2a1b2 I-S2555 | U5a2 |
I5408 | Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic | |||||
I5411 | Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic | M | 7000-6300 BCE | Schela-Cladovei | R1b R-Y244169 | U5a1 |
M95_noUDG.SG | Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic.SG | M | 7125-6603 calBCE | Schela-Cladovei | R1b R-FTA35718 | U5b2c |
M96_noUDG.SG | Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic.SG | M | 7250-6500 BCE | Schela-Cladovei | R1b R-Y244183 | U5a1c |
OC_noUDG.SG | Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic.SG | M | 7022-6485 calBCE | Ostrovul-Corbului | R1b R-Y244169 | K1 |
I2534 outlier | Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic_oEHG | F | 5810-5630 calBCE | Teleor-3 | K1 |