Ancient population · Iron Age
Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova)
Scythian_MDA
Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scythian_MDA), with 4 samples from Transnistria, Moldova, dated to about 297 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Glinoe Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova), Mid Avar (Medieval, Hungary) and South Transdanubia Late Avar (Medieval, Hungary); the nearest living populations are Turkish Thessaly, Turkish North Macedonia and Greek Thessaly.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a (2), H5b and H8c.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- about 297 BCE
- Country
- Moldova
- Origin
- Transnistria, Moldova
- Sampled near
- Hlinaia 46.65, 29.81
- Samples
- 4
- Published in
- KrzewińskaGötherströmSciAdv2018
- Catalogue
Scythian_MDAScythian_MDA_ooutliers
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 | Glinoe Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova)Moldova_Glinoe_Scythian | 0.67 |
| 2 | Mid Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_MidAvar | 1.97 |
| 3 | South Transdanubia Late Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_SouthTransdanubia_LAvar | 3.16 |
| 4 | North Hungary Mountains Late Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_NorthHungaryMountains_LAvar | 3.17 |
| 5 | EMedieval Alemanic SEurope (Medieval, Germany)Germany_EMedieval_Alemanic_SEurope | 3.27 |
| 6 | Emona Roman (Antiquity, Slovenia)Slovenia_Emona_Roman | 3.43 |
| 7 | Palazzo Della Cancelleria Roman possible (Medieval, Italy)Italy_PalazzoDellaCancelleria_Roman_Medieval_possible | 3.44 |
| 8 | ACD Nordic (Medieval)MA_ACD_Nordic | 3.54 |
| 9 | Rome (Medieval)Rome_MA | 3.55 |
| 10 | Erfurt2 (Medieval)MA_Erfurt2 | 3.55 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish ThessalyTurkish_Thessaly | 2.89 |
| 2 | Turkish North MacedoniaTurkish_North_Macedonia | 2.93 |
| 3 | Greek ThessalyGreek_Thessaly | 3.20 |
| 4 | Greek Central MacedoniaGreek_Central_Macedonia | 3.25 |
| 5 | Swiss ItalianSwiss_Italian | 3.25 |
| 6 | Rumelia EastRumelia_East | 3.29 |
| 7 | Patriyot West MacedoniaPatriyot_West_Macedonia | 3.31 |
| 8 | Pomak Almopia PlainPomak_Almopia_Plain | 3.37 |
| 9 | Torbeši PologTorbeši_Polog | 3.37 |
| 10 | Pomak Tikves PlainPomak_Tikves_Plain | 3.40 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 7
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 | Catalogue entry | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
scy192 | Scythian_MDA | F | 400-150 BCE | Hlinaia | H8c | |
scy197 | Scythian_MDA | M | 400-150 BCE | Hlinaia | E1b1b1a1b1 | U5a1a1 |
scy300 | Scythian_MDA | F | 395-206 calBCE | Hlinaia | H5b | |
scy305 | Scythian_MDA | M | 396-207 calBCE | Hlinaia | R1b1a1b1b3 | U5a2b |
scy301 outlier | Scythian_MDA | M | 390-202 calBCE | Hlinaia | F F | U5b2a3 |
scy303 outlier | Scythian_MDA_o | F | 386-198 calBCE | Hlinaia | U5a1a2b | |
scy311 outlier | Scythian_MDA | F | 391-198 calBCE | Hlinaia | T2b |