Ancient population · Iron Age

Scythian (Iron Age, Hungary) · Scythian_HUN

Name: Scythian (Iron Age, Hungary) · Scythian_HUN (Scythian_HUN)
Creator: Genoplot

Scythian_HUN

Scythian (Iron Age, Hungary) · Scythian_HUN is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scythian_HUN), with 5 samples from Northern Great Plain, Hungary, dated to about 574 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Knoviz (Late Bronze Age, Czech), Hallstatt (Iron Age, Czech) and Vekerzug (Iron Age, Slovakia); the nearest living populations are Austrian, German Erlangen and Croatian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H2a (2) and I2a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: about 574 BCE
Country: Hungary
Origin: Northern Great Plain, Hungary
Sampled near: Sándorfalva-Eperjes 46.87, 20.48
Sites: Sándorfalva-Eperjes
Sándorfalva-Eperjes-Unknown-Site-1
Tiszaszolos-Czalanyszeg
Samples: 5
Published in: DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
Catalogue: Scythian_HUN

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	Knoviz (Late Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_LBA_Knoviz`	2.50
2	Hallstatt (Iron Age, Czech)`Czech_IA_Hallstatt`	2.56
3	Vekerzug (Iron Age, Slovakia)`Slovakia_IA_Vekerzug`	2.70
4	Bytca Hrabove Puchov La Tene Roman (Antiquity, Slovakia)`Slovakia_BytcaHrabove_Puchov_LaTene_Roman`	2.71
5	Transtisza LSarmation EHun (Antiquity, Hungary)`Hungary_Transtisza_LSarmation_EHun`	2.89
6	Hungary (Late Bronze Age) · Hungary_LBA`Hungary_LBA`	2.89
7	La Tene (Iron Age, Czech)`Czech_IA_LaTene`	2.95
8	Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Hungary) · Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker`Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker`	2.98
9	Tumulus (Middle Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_MBA_Tumulus`	3.04
10	Prescythian Mezocsat (Early Iron Age, Hungary)`Hungary_EIA_Prescythian_Mezocsat`	3.05

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Austrian`Austrian`	2.26
2	German Erlangen`German_Erlangen`	2.72
3	Croatian`Croatian`	2.75
4	Slovenian`Slovenian`	2.76
5	Hungarian`Hungarian`	2.77
6	German`German`	3.10
7	French Alsace`French_Alsace`	3.30
8	Bosnian`Bosnian`	3.34
9	French Nord`French_Nord`	3.48
10	Montenegrin`Montenegrin`	3.56

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1a1a1 R-M417

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 8

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
`DA191`	F	749-397 calBCE	Tiszaszolos-Czalanyszeg		H2a2
`DA194`	F	513-211 calBCE	Sándorfalva-Eperjes		I2a
`DA197`	M	726-389 calBCE	Sándorfalva-Eperjes-Unknown-Site-1	R1a1a1 R-M417	H2a2a1
`I20743`		574 BCE	Northern Great Plain, Hungary
`I20746`		574 BCE	Northern Great Plain, Hungary
`DA195` outlier	F	772-423 calBCE	Sándorfalva-Eperjes		H
`DA198` outlier	M	737-392 calBCE	Sándorfalva-Eperjes	G2a2b2b1a1a2 G-BY21798	H7a1
`I20745` outlier		574 BCE	Northern Great Plain, Hungary