Ancient population · Iron Age
Himera 480BCE 5 (Iron Age, Sicily)
Sicily_Himera_480BCE_5
Himera 480BCE 5 (Iron Age, Sicily) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sicily_Himera_480BCE_5), with 1 sample from Sicily, Italy, dated to c. 480 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to North Caucasus (Middle Bronze Age, Russia), Armenia (Iron Age) and Armenia (Early Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Georgian Khevs, Hinukh and Georgian Tush.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 480 BCE
- Country
- Italy
- Origin
- Sicily, Italy
- Sampled near
- Himera 37.97, 13.82
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- ReitsemaReichPNAS2022
- Catalogue
Sicily_Himera_480BCE_5
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 | North Caucasus (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_North_Caucasus_MBA | 3.14 |
| 2 | Armenia (Iron Age)Armenia_IA | 3.81 |
| 3 | Armenia (Early Iron Age)Armenia_EIA | 3.90 |
| 4 | Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBAArmenia_MBA | 4.20 |
| 5 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Lchashen_LBA | 4.25 |
| 6 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)Armenia_LBA_EIA | 4.39 |
| 7 | Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_LateMaikop | 4.40 |
| 8 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBAArmenia_LBA | 4.46 |
| 9 | Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)Bagheri_Tchala_EIA | 4.48 |
| 10 | Dzharkutan 2 (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Dzharkutan_BA_2 | 4.61 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgian KhevsGeorgian_Khevs | 3.39 |
| 2 | HinukhHinukh | 3.42 |
| 3 | Georgian TushGeorgian_Tush | 3.45 |
| 4 | KarataKarata | 3.63 |
| 5 | AdygeiAdygei | 3.98 |
| 6 | Tsez ATsez_A | 4.00 |
| 7 | OssetianOssetian | 4.00 |
| 8 | Georgian North EastGeorgian_NorthEast | 4.10 |
| 9 | ChechenChechen | 4.10 |
| 10 | Georgian SvanetiGeorgian_Svaneti | 4.11 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I10951 | M | 480 BCE | Himera | R1a1a1 R-M417 |