Ancient population · Bronze Age

Scotland (Late Bronze Age)

Name: Scotland (Late Bronze Age) (Scotland_LBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Scotland_LBA

Scotland (Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_LBA), with 4 samples from Scotland, United Kingdom, dated to about 904 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Late Iron Age), Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland) and England (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Irish, Orcadian and Scottish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H5a, I2a, K1a and U5a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: about 904 BCE
Country: United Kingdom
Origin: Scotland, United Kingdom
Sampled near: Covesea Caves 57.72, -3.38
Samples: 4
Published in: OlaldeReichNature2018
Catalogue: Scotland_LBA

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Scotland (Late Iron Age)`Scotland_LIA`	1.15
2	Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)`Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman`	1.47
3	England (Middle Bronze Age)`England_MBA`	1.49
4	Orkney VA (Medieval, Scotland)`Scotland_Orkney_VA`	1.52
5	Viking (Medieval, Scotland)`Scotland_Viking`	1.60
6	Roman (Iron Age, England)`England_IA_Roman`	1.65
7	EM (Faroes)`Faroes_EM`	1.66
8	England (Early Medieval)`England_EarlyMedieval`	1.70
9	England (Iron Age)`England_IA`	1.75
10	East Yorkshire (Middle Iron Age, England)`England_EastYorkshire_MIA`	1.76

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Irish`Irish`	1.51
2	Orcadian`Orcadian`	1.52
3	Scottish`Scottish`	1.64
4	Norwegian`Norwegian`	2.02
5	English`English`	2.03
6	Icelandic`Icelandic`	2.05
7	Welsh`Welsh`	2.07
8	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	2.13
9	Danish`Danish`	2.21
10	English Cornwall`English_Cornwall`	2.24

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2 R-Z30597
R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

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
`I2859`	M	912-808 calBCE	Covesea Caves	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21	K1a2c
`I2860`	M	969-812 calBCE	Covesea Caves	R1b1a1b1a1a2 R-Z30597	H5a1
`I2861`	F	983-826 calBCE	Covesea Caves		I2a1
`I3130`	F	984-826 calBCE	Covesea Caves		U5a1c