Ancient population · Iron Age
Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)
Sicily_Himera_409BCE
Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sicily_Himera_409BCE), with 4 samples from Sicily, Italy, dated to c. 410 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece), Bulgaria (Early Iron Age) and Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily); the nearest living populations are Italian Lazio, French Corsica and Italian Apulia.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2a (2), R1b and T1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include HV0, K1a, U1a and U5a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 410 BCE
- Country
- Italy
- Origin
- Sicily, Italy
- Sampled near
- Himera 37.97, 13.82
- Samples
- 4
- Published in
- ReitsemaReichPNAS2022
- Catalogue
Sicily_Himera_409BCE
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 | Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_BA_Mycenaean | 1.98 |
| 2 | Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)Bulgaria_EIA | 2.15 |
| 3 | Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_1 | 2.15 |
| 4 | Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean | 2.70 |
| 5 | Bulgaria (Iron Age)Bulgaria_IA | 2.81 |
| 6 | Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age)Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA | 3.22 |
| 7 | Sicily (Iron Age)Sicily_IA | 3.39 |
| 8 | Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sicily_LBA | 3.42 |
| 9 | Bulgaria (Late Iron Age)Bulgaria_LIA | 3.47 |
| 10 | Sardinia 1 (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_IA_1 | 3.56 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian LazioItalian_Lazio | 4.72 |
| 2 | French CorsicaFrench_Corsica | 4.81 |
| 3 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 4.91 |
| 4 | Italian UmbriaItalian_Umbria | 4.97 |
| 5 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 5.04 |
| 6 | Italian AbruzzoItalian_Abruzzo | 5.10 |
| 7 | Italian BasilicataItalian_Basilicata | 5.10 |
| 8 | Greek ApuliaGreek_Apulia | 5.15 |
| 9 | Italian MarcheItalian_Marche | 5.20 |
| 10 | Italian MoliseItalian_Molise | 5.21 |
Haplogroups
Y-DNA
4 men with a call
- J2a1a1a2b2a2b1 J-FGC45722
- J2a1a2b2a2b2 J-Z35779
- R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2
- T1a2b1 T-FT39851
Individuals 4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I17866 | M | 409 BCE | Himera | J2a1a2b2a2b2 J-Z35779 | HV0 |
I7223 | M | 409 BCE | Himera | J2a1a1a2b2a2b1 J-FGC45722 | U5a1g1 |
I7224 | M | 409 BCE | Himera | T1a2b1 T-FT39851 | U1a1a |
I7225 | M | 409 BCE | Himera | R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2 | K1a4 |