Ancient population · Neolithic

Mediumlow EEF (Neolithic, Scotland)

Scotland_N_mediumlowEEF

Mediumlow EEF (Neolithic, Scotland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_N_mediumlowEEF), with 3 samples from Scotland, United Kingdom, dated to c. 3660–3440 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Globular Amphora (Neolithic, Czech), ME GAC (Bronze Age) and Koszyce Globular Amphora (Bronze Age, Poland); the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Basque Soule.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include H5, J1c and U5a.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 3660–3440 BCE
Origin
Scotland, United Kingdom
Sampled near
Distillery Cave 56.41, -5.48
Sites
Distillery Cave (2)
Carding Mill Bay II
Samples
3
Catalogue
Scotland_N_mediumlowEEF

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
1Globular Amphora (Neolithic, Czech)Czech_N_GlobularAmphora2.70
2ME GAC (Bronze Age)ME_GAC2.90
3Koszyce Globular Amphora (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_Koszyce_GlobularAmphora3.18
4La Clape (Late Neolithic–Early–Middle Bronze Age, France)France_LaClape_LN_EMBA3.24
5Globular Amphora (Bronze Age)Globular_Amphora3.34
6Spain (Chalcolithic)Spain_C3.36
7France (Neolithic)France_N3.37
8Ksiaznice Globular Amphora (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_Ksiaznice_GlobularAmphora3.69
9Spain (Middle Neolithic)Spain_MN3.70
10Globular Amphora (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_GlobularAmphora3.71
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Sardinia NSardinia_N6.78
2SardinianSardinian8.04
3Basque SouleBasque_Soule8.12
4Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North8.25
5Basque BaztanBasque_Baztan8.41
6Basque FrenchBasque_French8.57
7Basque Lower NavarreBasque_Lower_Navarre8.58
8Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish8.61
9Basque Gipuzkoa SouthwestBasque_Gipuzkoa_Southwest8.69
10Basque RoncalBasque_Roncal8.72

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I12317M3629-3377 calBCECarding Mill Bay III2a1a2 I-M423H5
I2660M3515-3357 calBCEDistillery CaveI2a1b1a1a1 I-BY168618U5a2
I2691M3710-3632 calBCEDistillery CaveI2a1b1a1a2 I-Y10626J1c1