Ancient population · Iron Age
Black Isle (Iron Age, Scotland)
Scotland_BlackIsle_IA
Black Isle (Iron Age, Scotland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_BlackIsle_IA), with 1 sample from United Kingdom, dated to c. 570 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to England (Middle Bronze Age), Scotland (Late Iron Age) and Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland); the nearest living populations are Orcadian, Irish and Scottish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is J1b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 570 CE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Rosemarkie Cave 57.60, -4.10
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- DuliasRichardsPNAS2022
- Catalogue
Scotland_BlackIsle_IA.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 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 2.33 |
| 2 | Scotland (Late Iron Age)Scotland_LIA | 2.44 |
| 3 | Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman | 2.50 |
| 4 | Scotland (Late Bronze Age)Scotland_LBA | 2.52 |
| 5 | Scotland (Early Iron Age)Scotland_EIA | 2.58 |
| 6 | Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)Scotland_MIA_LIA | 2.74 |
| 7 | England (Iron Age)England_IA | 2.75 |
| 8 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_BellBeaker | 2.76 |
| 9 | EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM | 2.78 |
| 10 | England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval | 2.80 |
Haplogroups
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
KD001.SG | M | 441-641 calCE | Rosemarkie Cave | R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151 | J1b1a1a |