Ancient population · Iron Age
Himera East Necropolis (Iron Age, Sicily)
Sicily_Himera_East_Necropolis
Himera East Necropolis (Iron Age, Sicily) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sicily_Himera_East_Necropolis), with 1 sample from Sicily, Italy, dated to c. 480 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy), Sicily (Early Bronze Age, Italy) and Sicily (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Sardinian, Bulgaria N and Romania N.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is H.
- 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_East_Necropolis
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 | Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sicily_LBA | 1.98 |
| 2 | Sicily (Early Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sicily_EBA | 2.75 |
| 3 | Sicily (Iron Age)Sicily_IA | 2.79 |
| 4 | Sardinia Punic 2 (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_2 | 3.36 |
| 5 | Bulgaria (Chalcolithic) · Bulgaria_CBulgaria_C | 3.71 |
| 6 | Aktopraklik (Late Neolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Aktopraklik_LN | 3.77 |
| 7 | Sardinia Sant Imbenia Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_SantImbenia_RomanImperial | 3.80 |
| 8 | Starcevo (Early Neolithic, Serbia)Serbia_EN_Starcevo | 4.17 |
| 9 | Protoboleraz (Late Chalcolithic, Hungary)Hungary_LateC_Protoboleraz | 4.22 |
| 10 | Olmo di Nogara (Middle Bronze Age)Olmo_di_Nogara_MBA | 4.27 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SardinianSardinian | 4.58 |
| 2 | Bulgaria NBulgaria_N | 5.46 |
| 3 | Romania NRomania_N | 5.99 |
| 4 | Croatia NCroatia_N | 6.66 |
| 5 | French CorsicaFrench_Corsica | 7.15 |
| 6 | Sardinia NSardinia_N | 7.36 |
| 7 | Macedonia NMacedonia_N | 7.50 |
| 8 | Italian LazioItalian_Lazio | 7.91 |
| 9 | Sicilian EastSicilian_East | 8.12 |
| 10 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 8.17 |
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.