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Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)

Saaremaa_EVA

Saaremaa EVA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Saaremaa_EVA), with 34 samples from Saare, Estonia, dated to c. 710–830 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia), Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval) and Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I1a (11), I1 (9) and N1a (7); its mtDNA haplogroups include H16 (4), H10e (2), H1a (2) and H1b (2).

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 710–830 CE
Country
Estonia
Origin
Saare, Estonia
Sampled near
Salme 58.17, 22.25
Samples
34
Catalogue
Saaremaa_EVA

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
1Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)Estonia_EarlyViking0.43
2Viking Age Sigtuna (Medieval)Viking_Age_Sigtuna1.18
3Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman1.37
4Ladoga VA (Medieval)Ladoga_VA1.44
5Viking (Medieval, Sweden)Sweden_Viking1.59
6Norway (Iron Age)Norway_IA1.66
7Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking1.71
8North VA (Medieval)North_VA1.75
9Mid VA (Medieval)Mid_VA1.82
10Oland (Iron Age)Oland_IA1.83
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SwedishSwedish1.07
2NorwegianNorwegian2.10
3DanishDanish2.18
4IcelandicIcelandic2.18
5German HamburgGerman_Hamburg2.65
6OrcadianOrcadian3.23
7DutchDutch3.24
8ShetlandicShetlandic3.32
9ScottishScottish3.33
10IrishIrish3.50

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

34 men with a call

mtDNA

34 individuals with a call

Individuals 34

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
VK480M700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-S6285U4a2a1
VK481M700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a N-L550T2a1a
VK482M700-800 CESalmeI1a10b1b I-Y18311H1a
VK483M674-877 calCESalmeI1a2a1a1d1a1a I-Y3000H16
VK484M700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-M417H6a1a
VK485M649-775 calCESalmeI1a2a1a1d1 I-Y3657H16
VK486M700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1b1a2b3a R-YP235U4a2a
VK487M700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-Z283H17a2
VK488M700-800 CESalmeI1a1a1b4 I-FTB71820H5c
VK489M700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a7a3a N-Y21546T2e1
VK490M657-777 calCESalmeI1a2a1a1d1a1a I-L1302H16
VK491M700-800 CESalmeI1 I1H6a1a
VK492M700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121H1b5
VK493M700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-M417H2a2a1
VK495M700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121H1b
VK496M700-800 CESalmeI1 I1H1a
VK497M700-800 CESalmeI1a2a1a1d1a1a I-Y3000H16
VK498M700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-M417H1q
VK504M700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1 N-Z4908H28a
VK505M700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a N-Y60725J1b1a1b
VK506M652-775 calCESalmeI1a7 I-BY72774J1c2
VK507M706-945 calCESalmeI1a2a1a1a I-FGC65549HV6
VK508M700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a7a N-Y10932J1c5
VK509M700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121H1n
VK510M700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121H10e
VK511M700-800 CESalmeI1a1b1a1e I-Y3662T2a1a
VK512M700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a7a3a N-Y21546H2a2b1
VK549M700-800 CESalmeI1a1b1a1 I-P109T2b5a
VK550M700-800 CESalmeN1a1a1a1a1a1a N-L1025V
VK551M700-800 CESalmeR1a1a1 R-Z283J2a1a1a2
VK552M700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121H10e
VK553M700-800 CESalmeI1 I-L121K1c1h
VK554M705-949 calCESalmeI1 I-L121W6a
VK555M700-800 CESalmeI1a2a1a1d1 I-Z73U3b1b