Ancient population · Iron Age

Himera 480BCE 4 (Iron Age, Sicily)

Name: Himera 480BCE 4 (Iron Age, Sicily) (Sicily_Himera_480BCE_4)
Creator: Genoplot

Sicily_Himera_480BCE_4

Himera 480BCE 4 (Iron Age, Sicily) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sicily_Himera_480BCE_4), with 2 samples from Sicily, Italy, dated to c. 480 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Urals Sarmatian (Iron Age), Late Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia) and Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Sarmatian; the nearest living populations are Tatar Mishar, Tatar Kazan and Tajik Rushan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups N and R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include A6a and N1a.

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_4

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	Urals Sarmatian (Iron Age)`Urals_Sarmatian`	1.92
2	Late Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_LateSarmatian`	2.22
3	Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Sarmatian`Kazakhstan_Sarmatian`	2.35
4	Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Sarmatian_IA`Kazakhstan_Sarmatian_IA`	2.41
5	Caspian steppe Sarmatian (Iron Age)`Caspian_steppe_Sarmatian`	2.46
6	Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_Sarmatian`	2.49
7	Early Sarmatian Southern Urals (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_EarlySarmatian_SouthernUrals`	2.66
8	North Transdanubia Hun (Medieval, Hungary)`Hungary_NorthTransdanubia_Hun`	3.11
9	Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_Sarmatian`KAZ_Sarmatian`	3.13
10	Middle Sarmatian Southern Urals (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_MiddleSarmatian_SouthernUrals`	3.29

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Tatar Mishar`Tatar_Mishar`	6.93
2	Tatar Kazan`Tatar_Kazan`	6.94
3	Tajik Rushan`Tajik_Rushan`	7.23
4	Pamiri Rushan`Pamiri_Rushan`	7.32
5	Komi`Komi`	7.81
6	Tajik Shugnan`Tajik_Shugnan`	7.92
7	Pamiri Shugnan`Pamiri_Shugnan`	7.95
8	Komi A`Komi_A`	8.12
9	Tajik Yaghnobi`Tajik_Yaghnobi`	8.38
10	Besermyan`Besermyan`	8.43

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

N N-Y147969
R1a1a1b2a2a1d6 R-Y46008

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

A6a
N1a1a1a

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
`I10944`	M	480 BCE	Himera	N N-Y147969	N1a1a1a
`I10947`	M	480 BCE	Himera	R1a1a1b2a2a1d6 R-Y46008	A6a