Ancient population · Iron Age
Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)
Sicily_Himera_480BCE_1
Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sicily_Himera_480BCE_1), with 7 samples from Sicily, Italy, dated to c. 480 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece), Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily) and Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece); the nearest living populations are Italian Campania, Italian Apulia and Italian Calabria.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups G2a (2), J2a (2) and LT; its mtDNA haplogroups include H5 (2), J1c, K1a and T2c.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 480 BCE
- Country
- Italy
- Origin
- Sicily, Italy
- Sampled near
- Himera 37.97, 13.82
- Samples
- 7
- Published in
- ReitsemaReichPNAS2022
- Catalogue
Sicily_Himera_480BCE_1
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 | Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean | 1.34 |
| 2 | Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE | 2.15 |
| 3 | Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_BA_Mycenaean | 2.17 |
| 4 | Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)Bulgaria_EIA | 2.38 |
| 5 | Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age)Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA | 2.61 |
| 6 | Bulgaria (Iron Age)Bulgaria_IA | 2.76 |
| 7 | Delphi (Iron Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_IA | 3.22 |
| 8 | Bulgaria (Late Iron Age)Bulgaria_LIA | 3.25 |
| 9 | Transtisza Maros Early Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_Transtisza_Maros_EAvar | 3.26 |
| 10 | Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA | 3.34 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 4.52 |
| 2 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 4.55 |
| 3 | Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria | 4.56 |
| 4 | Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani | 4.61 |
| 5 | Greek ApuliaGreek_Apulia | 4.63 |
| 6 | Italian BasilicataItalian_Basilicata | 4.68 |
| 7 | Sicilian EastSicilian_East | 4.89 |
| 8 | Italian LazioItalian_Lazio | 4.90 |
| 9 | Greek Cyclades TinosGreek_Cyclades_Tinos | 4.93 |
| 10 | Italian AbruzzoItalian_Abruzzo | 4.93 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 7
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.