Ancient population · Bronze Age

Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)

Name: Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland) (Scotland_Orkney_MBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Scotland_Orkney_MBA

Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_Orkney_MBA), with 5 samples from United Kingdom, dated to c. 1550–1470 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Middle Bronze Age), East Yorkshire (Late Iron Age, England) and England (Early Medieval); the nearest living populations are Irish, Norwegian and Scottish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I2a (3) and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1n, H39, K1c and T2b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1550–1470 BCE
Country: United Kingdom
Sampled near: Links of Noltland 59.33, -3.01
Samples: 5
Published in: DuliasRichardsPNAS2022
Catalogue: Scotland_Orkney_MBA.SG variant

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 (Middle Bronze Age)`Scotland_MBA`	1.58
2	East Yorkshire (Late Iron Age, England)`England_EastYorkshire_LIA`	1.66
3	England (Early Medieval)`England_EarlyMedieval`	1.71
4	England (Late Bronze Age)`England_LBA`	1.72
5	East Yorkshire (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age, England)`England_EastYorkshire_MIA_LIA`	1.72
6	Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)`Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman`	1.73
7	Viking (Medieval, Ireland)`Ireland_Viking`	1.73
8	Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)`Scotland_MIA_LIA`	1.77
9	Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval)`Viking_Age_Pre_Christian`	1.78
10	Pre Christian (Iceland)`Iceland_Pre_Christian`	1.78

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Irish`Irish`	2.21
2	Norwegian`Norwegian`	2.23
3	Scottish`Scottish`	2.35
4	Danish`Danish`	2.39
5	Orcadian`Orcadian`	2.40
6	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	2.47
7	Welsh`Welsh`	2.49
8	Dutch`Dutch`	2.50
9	English`English`	2.63
10	Icelandic`Icelandic`	2.64

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

I2a1a2a1a2a I-A8742 2
I2a1a2a1a2 I-Y12993
R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 11

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
`KD044.SG`	F	1650-1300 BCE	Links of Noltland		U5b2a3b
`KD049.SG`	M	1650-1400 BCE	Links of Noltland	I2a1a2a1a2a I-A8742	H39
`KD060.SG`	M	1650-1300 BCE	Links of Noltland	I2a1a2a1a2 I-Y12993	H1n1
`KD061.SG`	M	1700-1400 BCE	Links of Noltland	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21	K1c2
`KD064.SG`	M	1650-1300 BCE	Links of Noltland	I2a1a2a1a2a I-A8742	T2b21
`KD047.SG` outlier	M	1501-1319 calBCE	Links of Noltland	I2a1a2 I-Y3104	H39
`KD050_65.SG` outlier	F	1609-1437 calBCE	Links of Noltland		H39
`KD057.SG` outlier	M	1650-1300 BCE	Links of Noltland	I2a1a2 I-L161	H1n1
`KD059.SG` outlier	M	1620-1462 calBCE	Links of Noltland	I2a1a2a1a2 I-Y12993	T2b21
`KD063.SG` outlier	F	1650-1300 BCE	Links of Noltland		H58a
`KD067.SG` outlier	F	1650-1300 BCE	Links of Noltland		H