Ancient population · Iron Age
Scotland (Iron Age)
Scotland_IA
Scotland (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_IA), with 1 sample from Scotland, United Kingdom, dated to c. 30 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Late Iron Age), Scotland (Middle Iron Age) and Scotland (Late Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Icelandic, Orcadian and Irish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is H1as.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 30 CE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Broxmouth 55.99, -2.48
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Scotland_IA
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 | Scotland (Late Iron Age)Scotland_LIA | 2.59 |
| 2 | Scotland (Middle Iron Age)Scotland_MIA | 2.62 |
| 3 | Scotland (Late Bronze Age)Scotland_LBA | 2.71 |
| 4 | Viking (Medieval, Scotland)Scotland_Viking | 2.88 |
| 5 | Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland)Greenland_EarlyNorse | 2.90 |
| 6 | Low EEF (Middle Bronze Age, England)England_MBA_lowEEF | 2.93 |
| 7 | Roman (Iron Age, England)England_IA_Roman | 2.98 |
| 8 | Orkney VA (Medieval, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_VA | 3.03 |
| 9 | North (Iron Age)North_IA | 3.04 |
| 10 | EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM | 3.06 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IcelandicIcelandic | 3.03 |
| 2 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.13 |
| 3 | IrishIrish | 3.15 |
| 4 | ScottishScottish | 3.30 |
| 5 | English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall | 3.36 |
| 6 | EnglishEnglish | 3.49 |
| 7 | WelshWelsh | 3.50 |
| 8 | DanishDanish | 3.58 |
| 9 | NorwegianNorwegian | 3.60 |
| 10 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.79 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I16504 | M | 42 calBCE - 116 calCE | Broxmouth | R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-Z258 | H1as |