Ancient population · Iron Age
Scotland (Early Iron Age)
Scotland_EIA
Scotland (Early Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_EIA), with 2 samples from Scotland, United Kingdom, dated to c. 540–490 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to EM (Faroes), Hofstadir VA (Medieval) and England (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Orcadian, Scottish and Irish.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is H2a (2).
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 540–490 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Broxmouth 55.99, -2.48
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Scotland_EIA
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 | EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM | 1.62 |
| 2 | Hofstadir VA (Medieval)Hofstadir_VA | 1.79 |
| 3 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 1.84 |
| 4 | Scotland (Late Bronze Age)Scotland_LBA | 1.86 |
| 5 | Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman | 1.93 |
| 6 | Early Modern (Faroes)Faroes_EarlyModern | 1.94 |
| 7 | Dorset VA (Medieval, England)England_Dorset_VA | 1.99 |
| 8 | Saxon (Medieval, England)England_Saxon | 2.00 |
| 9 | Scotland (Late Iron Age)Scotland_LIA | 2.01 |
| 10 | England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval | 2.02 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.