Ancient population · Iron Age
Scotland (Late Iron Age)
Scotland_LIA
Scotland (Late Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_LIA), with 11 samples from Scotland, United Kingdom, dated to c. 110 BCE – 80 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Late Bronze Age), England (Middle Bronze Age) and Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland); the nearest living populations are Orcadian, Irish and Icelandic.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (8) and I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H13a (2), H6a (2), H1 and H2a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 110 BCE – 80 CE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Applecross 56.84, -4.14
- Sites
- Applecross (3)
Law Road (3)
Linlithgow (2)
Broxmouth
Howe of Howe
and 1 more - Samples
- 11
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Scotland_LIA
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 Bronze Age)Scotland_LBA | 1.15 |
| 2 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 1.23 |
| 3 | Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman | 1.53 |
| 4 | Viking (Medieval, Scotland)Scotland_Viking | 1.59 |
| 5 | Orkney VA (Medieval, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_VA | 1.62 |
| 6 | England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval | 1.65 |
| 7 | Roman (Iron Age, England)England_IA_Roman | 1.65 |
| 8 | England (Iron Age)England_IA | 1.66 |
| 9 | EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM | 1.66 |
| 10 | Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA | 1.70 |
Haplogroups
Y-DNA
9 men with a call
- R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-Z2185 4
- I2a1b1 I-Y3259
- R1b1a1b R-M269
- R1b1a1b1a1a2b1a1 R-L20
- R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a4b2b1 R-A277
- R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a5b1a1c1 R-S6168
Individuals 11
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I16413 | F | 44 calBCE - 117 calCE | Law Road | H6a1a8 | |
I16418 | M | 97 calBCE - 107 calCE | Law Road | I2a1b1 I-Y3259 | U5a1d2a |
I16495 | F | 196 calBCE - 3 calCE | Law Road | H6a1a8 | |
I2693 | M | 197 calBCE - 1 calCE | Broxmouth | R1b1a1b1a1a2b1a1 R-L20 | H3 |
I27384 | M | 90 calBCE - 110 calCE | Linlithgow | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a5b1a1c1 R-S6168 | H2a2a1g |
I27385 | M | 43 calBCE - 117 calCE | Linlithgow | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-Z2185 | T2b19 |
I2799 | M | 152 calBCE - 22 calCE | Howe of Howe | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21 | H1 |
I2824 | M | 41 calBCE - 121 calCE | Northton | R1b1a1b R-M269 | H13a1a |
I3566 | M | 45 calBCE - 108 calCE | Applecross | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21 | H13a1a |
I3567 | M | 149 calBCE - 21 calCE | Applecross | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-Z2534 | J1c3b |
I3568 | M | 8-155 calCE | Applecross | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a4b2b1 R-A277 | H7a1 |