Ancient population · Neolithic
Low EEF (Neolithic, Scotland)
Scotland_N_lowEEF
Low EEF (Neolithic, Scotland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_N_lowEEF), with 3 samples from Scotland, United Kingdom, dated to c. 3600–3400 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Wartberg (Middle Neolithic), PEN (Early Neolithic) and Blatterhohle (Middle Neolithic, Germany); the nearest living populations are Basque Navarre North, Basque Soule and Basque Baztan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a, T2b and U5b.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 3600–3400 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Raschoille Cave 56.40, -5.48
- Sites
- Raschoille Cave (2)
Carding Mill Bay II - Samples
- 3
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
OlaldeReichNature2018 - Catalogue
Scotland_N_lowEEF
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 | Wartberg (Middle Neolithic)Wartberg_MN | 3.26 |
| 2 | PEN (Early Neolithic)EN_PEN | 3.38 |
| 3 | Blatterhohle (Middle Neolithic, Germany)Germany_Blatterhohle_MN | 3.97 |
| 4 | Mediumlow EEF (Neolithic, Scotland)Scotland_N_mediumlowEEF | 5.46 |
| 5 | France (Early Neolithic)France_EN | 6.30 |
| 6 | Channel Islands (Late Neolithic)ChannelIslands_LN | 6.56 |
| 7 | Globular Amphora (Neolithic, Czech)Czech_N_GlobularAmphora | 6.72 |
| 8 | Corded Ware no Steppe (Bronze Age, Czechia)Corded_Ware_CZE_noSteppe | 6.85 |
| 9 | Ansarve Megalithic (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Ansarve_Megalithic | 6.95 |
| 10 | Channel Islands low res (Late Neolithic)Channel_Islands_LN_low_res | 6.99 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North | 9.74 |
| 2 | Basque SouleBasque_Soule | 9.85 |
| 3 | Basque BaztanBasque_Baztan | 9.87 |
| 4 | Basque Gipuzkoa SouthwestBasque_Gipuzkoa_Southwest | 9.98 |
| 5 | Basque FrenchBasque_French | 9.99 |
| 6 | Basque Lower NavarreBasque_Lower_Navarre | 10.07 |
| 7 | Basque RoncalBasque_Roncal | 10.13 |
| 8 | Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish | 10.17 |
| 9 | Basque BiscayBasque_Biscay | 10.21 |
| 10 | Basque GipuzkoaBasque_Gipuzkoa | 10.24 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I12314 | F | 3647-3533 calBCE | Carding Mill Bay II | T2b | |
I3135 | M | 3516-3370 calBCE | Raschoille Cave | I2a1b1a1a1b I-L1193 | U5b2a |
I3139_d | F | 3800-3000 BCE | Raschoille Cave | K1a4a1 | |
I3041 outlier | M | 3950-3000 BCE | Raschoille Cave | I2a1b1a1a1 I-BY166007 | K1a3a |