Ancient population · Iron Age

Scotland (Middle Iron Age)

Name: Scotland (Middle Iron Age) (Scotland_MIA)
Creator: Genoplot

Scotland_MIA

Scotland (Middle Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_MIA), with 2 samples from Scotland, United Kingdom, dated to c. 310–300 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Late Iron Age), Scotland (Late Bronze Age) and Viking (Medieval, Scotland); the nearest living populations are Orcadian, Irish and Scottish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H7a and U2e.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 310–300 BCE
Country: United Kingdom
Origin: Scotland, United Kingdom
Sampled near: Bu 58.96, -3.27
Samples: 2
Published in: PattersonReichNature2021
Catalogue: Scotland_MIA

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`	1.84
2	Scotland (Late Bronze Age)`Scotland_LBA`	1.98
3	Viking (Medieval, Scotland)`Scotland_Viking`	2.08
4	EM (Faroes)`Faroes_EM`	2.11
5	Roman (Iron Age, England)`England_IA_Roman`	2.17
6	England (Iron Age)`England_IA`	2.29
7	Early Modern (Faroes)`Faroes_EarlyModern`	2.32
8	Orkney VA (Medieval, Scotland)`Scotland_Orkney_VA`	2.32
9	East Yorkshire (Middle Iron Age, England)`England_EastYorkshire_MIA`	2.33
10	Late Norse (Medieval, Greenland)`Greenland_LateNorse`	2.33

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Orcadian`Orcadian`	2.17
2	Irish`Irish`	2.22
3	Scottish`Scottish`	2.27
4	English`English`	2.54
5	English Cornwall`English_Cornwall`	2.59
6	Icelandic`Icelandic`	2.59
7	Welsh`Welsh`	2.64
8	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	2.73
9	Norwegian`Norwegian`	2.84
10	Danish`Danish`	2.93

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

H7a1
U2e2a1c

Individuals 2

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
`I2982`	M	395-207 calBCE	Bu	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21	H7a1
`I2983`	F	399-207 calBCE	Bu		U2e2a1c