Ancient population · Neolithic
Skye (Neolithic, Scotland)
Scotland_Skye_N
Skye (Neolithic, Scotland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_Skye_N), with 1 sample from United Kingdom, dated to c. 3250 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Mont Aime MLN (Bronze Age, France), Spain (Chalcolithic) and ENMN LBR (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Basque Navarre North.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is U5b.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 3250 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Strathglebe 57.21, -5.85
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- DuliasRichardsPNAS2022
- Catalogue
Scotland_Skye_N.SGvariant
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 | Mont Aime MLN (Bronze Age, France)France_MontAime_MLN | 2.35 |
| 2 | Spain (Chalcolithic)Spain_C | 2.76 |
| 3 | ENMN LBR (Neolithic)ENMN_LBR | 2.84 |
| 4 | Ireland (Early Neolithic–Middle Neolithic)Ireland_EN_MN | 3.03 |
| 5 | La Clape (Late Neolithic–Early–Middle Bronze Age, France)France_LaClape_LN_EMBA | 3.06 |
| 6 | Ireland (Middle Neolithic) · Ireland_MNIreland_MN | 3.07 |
| 7 | France (Neolithic)France_N | 3.08 |
| 8 | Scotland (Neolithic)Scotland_N | 3.20 |
| 9 | England (Neolithic)England_N | 3.21 |
| 10 | MLN (Chalcolithic, Spain)Spain_MLN | 3.22 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sardinia NSardinia_N | 6.72 |
| 2 | SardinianSardinian | 7.16 |
| 3 | Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North | 9.60 |
| 4 | Basque SouleBasque_Soule | 9.62 |
| 5 | Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish | 9.96 |
| 6 | Basque Gipuzkoa SouthwestBasque_Gipuzkoa_Southwest | 9.98 |
| 7 | Basque BaztanBasque_Baztan | 10.03 |
| 8 | Basque GipuzkoaBasque_Gipuzkoa | 10.04 |
| 9 | Basque Lower NavarreBasque_Lower_Navarre | 10.08 |
| 10 | Basque BiscayBasque_Biscay | 10.12 |
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.