Ancient population · Bronze Age

Megalithic (Bronze Age, Scotland)

Scotland_Megalithic

Megalithic (Bronze Age, Scotland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_Megalithic), with 6 samples from Scotland, United Kingdom, dated to about 3240 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Neolithic), Ireland (Middle Neolithic) · Ireland_MN and England (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Croatia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include H1, H5, K1a and U5b.

Date
about 3240 BCE
Origin
Scotland, United Kingdom
Sampled near
Midhowe 58.67, -3.33
Sites
Midhowe (3)
Balintore (2)
Knowe of Lairo
Samples
6
Catalogue
Scotland_Megalithic
Scotland_Megalithic.SG variant

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
#PopulationDistance
1Scotland (Neolithic)Scotland_N1.70
2Ireland (Middle Neolithic) · Ireland_MNIreland_MN1.80
3England (Neolithic)England_N1.90
4Megalithic (Neolithic, England)England_N_Megalithic2.01
5Switzerland (Late Neolithic) · Switzerland_LNSwitzerland_LN2.01
6France (Early Neolithic–Middle Neolithic)France_EN_MN2.06
7SE Iberia CA (Chalcolithic, Spain)Spain_SE_Iberia_CA2.06
8Ireland (Early Neolithic)Ireland_EN2.08
9Iberia SW CA (Chalcolithic)Iberia_SW_CA2.10
10Ireland (Late Neolithic)Ireland_LN2.13
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Sardinia NSardinia_N4.68
2SardinianSardinian5.05
3Croatia NCroatia_N8.93
4Basque SouleBasque_Soule8.98
5Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North9.15
6Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish9.40
7Basque BaztanBasque_Baztan9.44
8Basque Navarre CenterBasque_Navarre_Center9.53
9Basque GipuzkoaBasque_Gipuzkoa9.54
10Basque Lower NavarreBasque_Lower_Navarre9.55

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 8

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
bal004Scotland_MegalithicF3368-3103 calBCEBalintoreH1
bal004_noUDG.SGScotland_Megalithic.SGF3368-3103 calBCEBalintoreH1
lai001_noUDG.SGScotland_Megalithic.SGM3367-3102 calBCEKnowe of LairoI2a1a2 I-L161U5b2
mid001_noUDG.SGScotland_Megalithic.SGM3364-3102 calBCEMidhoweI2a1a2 I-Y3104K1a
mid002Scotland_MegalithicM3623-3372 calBCEMidhoweI2a1a2 I-L161H5
mid002_noUDG.SGScotland_Megalithic.SGM3623-3372 calBCEMidhoweI2a1a2 I-L161H5
lai001 outlierScotland_MegalithicM3367-3102 calBCEKnowe of LairoI2a1a2 I-L161U5b2
mid001 outlierScotland_MegalithicM3364-3102 calBCEMidhoweI2a1a2 I-Y3104K1a