Ancient population · Iron Age
Himera 480BCE 3 (Iron Age, Sicily)
Sicily_Himera_480BCE_3
Himera 480BCE 3 (Iron Age, Sicily) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sicily_Himera_480BCE_3), with 2 samples from Sicily, Italy, dated to c. 480 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Baltic (Iron Age, Estonia), Estonia (Iron Age) and Krakauer Berg (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Russian Pskov, Lithuanian VA and Lithuanian PA.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I2a and R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1m and U5a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 480 BCE
- Country
- Italy
- Origin
- Sicily, Italy
- Sampled near
- Himera 37.97, 13.82
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- ReitsemaReichPNAS2022
- Catalogue
Sicily_Himera_480BCE_3
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 | Baltic (Iron Age, Estonia)Baltic_EST_IA | 3.35 |
| 2 | Estonia (Iron Age)Estonia_IA | 3.36 |
| 3 | Krakauer Berg (Medieval)MA_Krakauer_Berg | 3.51 |
| 4 | Golden Horde Euro (Medieval, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_GoldenHordeEuro | 3.52 |
| 5 | Golden Horde Euro (Medieval)Golden_Horde_Euro | 3.55 |
| 6 | Pskov VA (Medieval)Pskov_VA | 3.60 |
| 7 | Baltic (Medieval, Estonia)Baltic_EST_MA | 3.84 |
| 8 | Kurevanikha VA (Medieval)Kurevanikha_VA | 4.01 |
| 9 | Estonia (Medieval)Estonia_Medieval | 4.11 |
| 10 | Sunghir (Medieval, Russia)Russia_Sunghir_Medieval | 4.34 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian PskovRussian_Pskov | 2.83 |
| 2 | Lithuanian VALithuanian_VA | 2.99 |
| 3 | Lithuanian PALithuanian_PA | 3.08 |
| 4 | Russian TverRussian_Tver | 3.09 |
| 5 | Lithuanian RALithuanian_RA | 3.18 |
| 6 | Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ | 3.34 |
| 7 | LatvianLatvian | 3.34 |
| 8 | Russian KurskRussian_Kursk | 3.36 |
| 9 | Russian YaroslavlRussian_Yaroslavl | 3.43 |
| 10 | EstonianEstonian | 3.49 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I10943 | M | 480 BCE | Himera | R1a1a1 R-M417 | U5a1a1 |
I10949 | M | 480 BCE | Himera | I2a1a1b1a1 I-L233 | H1m |