Ancient population · Iron Age
Sealand (Iron Age)
Sealand_IA
Sealand (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sealand_IA), with 2 samples from Zealand, Denmark, dated to c. 100–300 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Denmark (Iron Age), Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland) and Greenland E VA (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Icelandic and Danish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I1a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H16b and U2e.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 100–300 CE
- Country
- Denmark
- Origin
- Zealand, Denmark
- Sampled near
- Brondsager Torsiinre 55.65, 12.24
- Sites
- Brondsager Torsiinre
Kragehave Odetofter - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
- Catalogue
Sealand_IA
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 | Denmark (Iron Age)Denmark_IA | 1.79 |
| 2 | Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland)Greenland_EarlyNorse | 1.98 |
| 3 | Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA | 2.00 |
| 4 | Hiddestorf Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_Hiddestorf_Saxon_EMedieval | 2.11 |
| 5 | EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM | 2.13 |
| 6 | Saxon (Early Medieval, England)England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon | 2.15 |
| 7 | Saxon (Medieval, England)England_Saxon | 2.19 |
| 8 | Sealand EVA (Medieval)Sealand_EVA | 2.25 |
| 9 | Pre Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Pre_Christian | 2.28 |
| 10 | Scotland (Late Iron Age)Scotland_LIA | 2.29 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
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.