Ancient population · Iron Age
Himera Civilians (Iron Age, Sicily)
Sicily_Himera_Civilians
Himera Civilians (Iron Age, Sicily) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sicily_Himera_Civilians), with 2 samples from Sicily, Italy, dated to c. 550 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to LA (Medieval, Italy), Roman 4 (Antiquity, Turkey) and Imperial (Antiquity, Italy); the nearest living populations are Italian Calabria, Greek Kos and Italian Basilicata.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup L; its mtDNA haplogroup is H.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 550 BCE
- Country
- Italy
- Origin
- Sicily, Italy
- Sampled near
- Himera 37.97, 13.82
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- ReitsemaReichPNAS2022
- Catalogue
Sicily_Himera_Civilians
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 | LA (Medieval, Italy)Italy_LA | 3.55 |
| 2 | Roman 4 (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Roman_4 | 3.68 |
| 3 | Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Imperial | 3.70 |
| 4 | Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean | 3.72 |
| 5 | Bivio Roman (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Bivio_Roman | 3.76 |
| 6 | Bulgaria (Iron Age)Bulgaria_IA | 3.77 |
| 7 | North Langobards 3 (Early Medieval, Italy)Italy_North_EarlyMedieval_Langobards_3 | 3.79 |
| 8 | Basilicata Venosa (Medieval, Italy)Italy_Basilicata_Venosa | 3.82 |
| 9 | Ordona (Medieval, Italy)Italy_Ordona_Medieval | 3.86 |
| 10 | Archaic Sub Geometric (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Archaic_SubGeometric | 3.90 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria | 3.64 |
| 2 | Greek KosGreek_Kos | 3.69 |
| 3 | Italian BasilicataItalian_Basilicata | 3.72 |
| 4 | Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani | 3.72 |
| 5 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 3.75 |
| 6 | Greek Crete LasithiGreek_Crete_Lasithi | 3.80 |
| 7 | Greek ApuliaGreek_Apulia | 3.80 |
| 8 | Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese | 3.89 |
| 9 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 3.93 |
| 10 | Greek Cyclades AmorgosGreek_Cyclades_Amorgos | 3.93 |
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.