Ancient population · Neolithic

Sicily (Early Neolithic)

Name: Sicily (Early Neolithic) (Sicily_EN)
Creator: Genoplot

Sicily_EN

Sicily (Early Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sicily_EN), with 6 samples from Sicily, Italy, dated to c. 5420–4790 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sicily Stentinello (Neolithic, Italy), Lasinja (Chalcolithic, Croatia) and Sicily (Middle Neolithic, Italy); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Croatia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups C1a and H2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include U8b (2), H, J1c and K1a.

Period: Neolithic
Date: c. 5420–4790 BCE
Country: Italy
Origin: Sicily, Italy
Sampled near: Grotta dell'Uzzo 38.11, 12.79
Samples: 6
Published in: YuKrauseiScience2022
Catalogue: Sicily_EN

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	Sicily Stentinello (Neolithic, Italy)`Italy_Sicily_N_Stentinello`	1.49
2	Lasinja (Chalcolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_C_Lasinja`	1.98
3	Sicily (Middle Neolithic, Italy)`Italy_Sicily_MN`	2.06
4	Pop (Middle Neolithic)`Pop_MN`	2.12
5	Bodrogkeresztur (Chalcolithic, Romania)`Romania_C_Bodrogkeresztur`	2.15
6	Hungary (Neolithic)`HUN_Neolithic`	2.26
7	Popova (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_Popova_MN`	2.35
8	Lingolsheim (Middle Neolithic)`MN_Lingolsheim`	2.43
9	Bulgaria (Chalcolithic) · Bulgaria_C`Bulgaria_C`	2.44
10	Ripabianca di Monterado (Neolithic)`Ripabianca_di_Monterado_N`	2.47

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	3.24
2	Romania N`Romania_N`	3.79
3	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	3.85
4	Sardinian`Sardinian`	4.41
5	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	5.20
6	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	6.16
7	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	9.52
8	Belmonte Jew`Belmonte_Jew`	10.12
9	Italian Lazio`Italian_Lazio`	10.46
10	Italian Lombardy`Italian_Lombardy`	10.77

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

C1a2 C-F16270
H2a H-Z19072

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 6

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`UZZ033`	M	5400-5200 BCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo	H2a H-Z19072	U8b1b1
`UZZ034`	F	5376-5220 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		U8b1b1
`UZZ061`	M	4879-4719 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo	C1a2 C-F16270	K1a2
`UZZ074`	F	5350-5200 BCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		N1a1a1
`UZZ075`	F	5350-5200 BCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		J1c5
`UZZ077`	F	5476-5365 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		H