Ancient population · Bronze Age
Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)
Scotland_MBA
Scotland (Middle Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_MBA), with 3 samples from Scotland, United Kingdom, dated to about 1402 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age), East Yorkshire (Late Iron Age, England) and England (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Irish and Orcadian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I2a and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H2a, H3 and H6a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- about 1402 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Evergreen 56.73, -4.24
- Sites
- Evergreen (2)
Pabaigh Mor - Pabay Mòr - Samples
- 3
- Published in
- OlaldeReichNature2018
- Catalogue
Scotland_MBA
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 (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)Scotland_MIA_LIA | 1.46 |
| 2 | East Yorkshire (Late Iron Age, England)England_EastYorkshire_LIA | 1.54 |
| 3 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 1.58 |
| 4 | Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_MBA | 1.58 |
| 5 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 1.66 |
| 6 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 1.75 |
| 7 | East Yorkshire (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age, England)England_EastYorkshire_MIA_LIA | 1.77 |
| 8 | Ireland (Bronze Age)IRL_BA | 1.82 |
| 9 | England (Late Bronze Age)England_LBA | 1.82 |
| 10 | Switzerland 2 (Early Bronze Age)Switzerland_EBA_2 | 1.83 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 5
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I2573 | F | 1502-1302 calBCE | Evergreen | H3 | |
I2653 | M | 1389-1131 calBCE | Evergreen | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-Z2185 | H2a1a |
I2655 | M | 1445-1268 calBCE | Pabaigh Mor - Pabay Mòr | I2a1b1a1a1 I-L1195 | H6a1b2 |
I2654 outlier | F | 1419-1261 calBCE | Evergreen | U5b3 | |
I2656 outlier | M | 1283-940 calBCE | Grainfoot | R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2 |