Ancient population · Iron Age
Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)
Scotland_MIA_LIA
Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_MIA_LIA), with 3 samples from Scotland, United Kingdom, dated to c. 250–120 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to England (Middle Bronze Age), Scotland (Middle Bronze Age) and East Yorkshire (Late Iron Age, England); the nearest living populations are Irish, Norwegian and Icelandic.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1ak, I2a and U5a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 250–120 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Broxmouth 56.01, -2.56
- Sites
- Broxmouth (2)
Law Road - Samples
- 3
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Scotland_MIA_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 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 1.40 |
| 2 | Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)Scotland_MBA | 1.46 |
| 3 | East Yorkshire (Late Iron Age, England)England_EastYorkshire_LIA | 1.57 |
| 4 | Pre Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Pre_Christian | 1.57 |
| 5 | Saxon (Early Medieval, England)England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon | 1.69 |
| 6 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 1.71 |
| 7 | Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman | 1.72 |
| 8 | England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval | 1.73 |
| 9 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 1.75 |
| 10 | Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_MBA | 1.77 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I16499 | M | 337-43 calBCE | Law Road | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21 | I2a |
I2694 | F | 361-110 calBCE | Broxmouth | H1ak1 | |
I2696 | F | 355-55 calBCE | Broxmouth | U5a2b4a | |
I16422 outlier | M | 364-121 calBCE | Broxmouth | R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2 | H3 |
I2695 outlier | M | 364-121 calBCE | Broxmouth | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21 | H2a1 |