Ancient population · Neolithic
Scotland (Neolithic)
Scotland_N
Scotland (Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_N), with 1 sample from Scotland, United Kingdom, dated to about 2522 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ireland (Middle Neolithic) · Ireland_MN, England (Neolithic) and Megalithic (Neolithic, England); the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Basque Soule.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is HV0.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- about 2522 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Raschoille Cave 56.40, -5.48
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Scotland_N
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 | Ireland (Middle Neolithic) · Ireland_MNIreland_MN | 0.74 |
| 2 | England (Neolithic)England_N | 0.91 |
| 3 | Megalithic (Neolithic, England)England_N_Megalithic | 1.04 |
| 4 | Ireland (Late Neolithic)Ireland_LN | 1.21 |
| 5 | Switzerland (Late Neolithic) · Switzerland_LNSwitzerland_LN | 1.31 |
| 6 | Ireland (Early Neolithic)Ireland_EN | 1.40 |
| 7 | Megalithic (Chalcolithic, Ireland) · IRL_MegalithicIRL_Megalithic | 1.57 |
| 8 | Switzerland (Late Neolithic) · CHE_LNCHE_LN | 1.57 |
| 9 | Megalithic (Chalcolithic, Ireland) · Ireland_MegalithicIreland_Megalithic | 1.62 |
| 10 | MLN (Chalcolithic, Spain)Spain_MLN | 1.62 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sardinia NSardinia_N | 4.21 |
| 2 | SardinianSardinian | 5.10 |
| 3 | Basque SouleBasque_Soule | 8.88 |
| 4 | Croatia NCroatia_N | 8.90 |
| 5 | Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North | 9.01 |
| 6 | Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish | 9.27 |
| 7 | Basque BaztanBasque_Baztan | 9.31 |
| 8 | Basque GipuzkoaBasque_Gipuzkoa | 9.39 |
| 9 | Basque Lower NavarreBasque_Lower_Navarre | 9.39 |
| 10 | Basque Navarre CenterBasque_Navarre_Center | 9.40 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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.