Ancient population · Iron Age

Sicily (Iron Age)

Name: Sicily (Iron Age) (Sicily_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Sicily_IA

Sicily (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sicily_IA), with 19 samples from Sicily, Italy, dated to c. 780–640 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy), Sicily (Early Bronze Age, Italy) and Himera East Necropolis (Iron Age, Sicily); the nearest living populations are Sardinian, Bulgaria N and Croatia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a (7); its mtDNA haplogroups include H (4), K1a (2), T2b (2) and U5b (2).

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 780–640 BCE
Country: Italy
Origin: Sicily, Italy
Sampled near: Polizzello 37.61, 13.83
Samples: 19
Published in: ReitsemaReichPNAS2022
Catalogue: Sicily_IA

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	Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sicily_LBA`	1.60
2	Sicily (Early Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sicily_EBA`	1.74
3	Himera East Necropolis (Iron Age, Sicily)`Sicily_Himera_East_Necropolis`	2.79
4	Sardinia Sant Imbenia Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_SantImbenia_RomanImperial`	2.86
5	Sardinia Punic 2 (Iron Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_2`	3.00
6	Varna (Chalcolithic, Bulgaria)`Bulgaria_Varna_C`	3.11
7	Aktopraklik (Late Neolithic, Turkey)`Turkey_Aktopraklik_LN`	3.16
8	Bulgaria (Chalcolithic) · Bulgaria_C`Bulgaria_C`	3.22
9	Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)`Sicily_Himera_409BCE`	3.39
10	Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)`Bulgaria_EIA`	3.40

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sardinian`Sardinian`	3.76
2	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	5.35
3	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	5.95
4	Romania N`Romania_N`	5.96
5	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	5.99
6	Italian Lazio`Italian_Lazio`	6.94
7	Italian Lombardy`Italian_Lombardy`	7.12
8	Italian Umbria`Italian_Umbria`	7.20
9	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	7.37
10	Italian Tuscany`Italian_Tuscany`	7.42

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

7 men with a call

G2a2b2a1a1c1 G-Z1903 6
G2a2b2a1a1c1a1a2 G-Z3428

mtDNA

19 individuals with a call

Individuals 19

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
`I13376`	F	850-550 BCE	Polizzello		T2c1d1
`I13377`	F	850-550 BCE	Polizzello		J1c5
`I13378`	M	850-550 BCE	Polizzello	G2a2b2a1a1c1 G-Z1903	H
`I13379`	F	850-550 BCE	Polizzello		H
`I13380`	F	850-550 BCE	Polizzello		T2b
`I13381`	F	850-550 BCE	Polizzello		K1a
`I13382`	M	850-550 BCE	Polizzello	G2a2b2a1a1c1a1a2 G-Z3428	HV1a'b'c
`I13383`	M	810-765 calBCE	Polizzello	G2a2b2a1a1c1 G-Z1903	J2a1a1a
`I13384`	F	850-550 BCE	Polizzello		H1ba
`I13385`	M	771-541 calBCE	Polizzello	G2a2b2a1a1c1 G-Z1903	H1
`I13386`	M	850-550 BCE	Polizzello	G2a2b2a1a1c1 G-Z1903	U5b1d1
`I13387`	F	850-550 BCE	Polizzello		T2b3
`I13389`	M	850-550 BCE	Polizzello	G2a2b2a1a1c1 G-Z1903	H4a1
`I13390`	F	850-550 BCE	Polizzello		H
`I13391`	M	850-550 BCE	Polizzello	G2a2b2a1a1c1 G-Z1903	U3a
`I13392`	F	850-550 BCE	Polizzello		K1a
`I13393`	F	850-550 BCE	Polizzello		H46
`I13394`	F	804-570 calBCE	Polizzello		H
`I13395`	F	850-550 BCE	Polizzello		U5b1d1a