Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Sicily (Mesolithic)

Name: Sicily (Mesolithic) (Sicily_Meso)
Creator: Genoplot

Sicily_Meso

Sicily (Mesolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sicily_Meso), with 6 samples from Sicily, Italy, dated to c. 6630–5930 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sicily Late Mesolithic Castelnovian (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy), Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy) and North Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian SZ and Lithuanian PZ.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include U5b (4) and U5a (2).

Period: Hunter-Gatherer
Date: c. 6630–5930 BCE
Country: Italy
Origin: Sicily, Italy
Sampled near: Grotta dell'Uzzo 38.11, 12.79
Samples: 6
Published in: YuKrauseiScience2022
Catalogue: Sicily_Meso

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 Mesolithic Castelnovian (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic_Castelnovian`	0.89
2	Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`ITA_Villabruna`	2.44
3	North Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`Italy_North_Villabruna_HG`	2.66
4	Sicily Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic`	2.83
5	Syltholm LM (Early Neolithic, Denmark)`Denmark_Syltholm_LM_EN`	2.87
6	BDB (Mesolithic)`Meso_BDB`	3.55
7	Croatia (Mesolithic–Hunter-Gatherer)`Croatia_Mesolithic_HG`	3.64
8	Germany (Mesolithic)`Germany_Mesolithic`	3.83
9	Wales (Mesolithic) · Wales_Mesolithic`Wales_Mesolithic`	4.23
10	Wales (Mesolithic) · Wales_Meso`Wales_Meso`	4.34

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Latvian`Latvian`	29.41
2	Lithuanian SZ`Lithuanian_SZ`	29.49
3	Lithuanian PZ`Lithuanian_PZ`	29.52
4	Estonian`Estonian`	29.65
5	Finnish Southeast`Finnish_Southeast`	29.92
6	Finnish East`Finnish_East`	29.92
7	Karelian`Karelian`	29.99
8	Finnish`Finnish`	30.11
9	Ingrian`Ingrian`	30.12
10	Lithuanian VA`Lithuanian_VA`	30.13

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

I2a1b I-M436

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 10

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. 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
`UZZ071`	F	6008-5846 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		U5a2
`UZZ079`	F	6700-6550 BCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		U5b3
`UZZ080`	F	6700-6550 BCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		U5b2b1a
`UZZ081`	M	6693-6572 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo	I2a1b I-M436	U5b3
`UZZ082`	F	6700-6550 BCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		U5a1
`UZZ4446`	F	6633-6469 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		U5b2b
`UZZ040` outlier	M	6416-6245 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo	I2a1b1 I-Y3259	U4a2f
`UZZ069` outlier	F	6773-6597 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		U5b2b
`UZZ088` outlier	F	5987-5844 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		U5b3
`UZZ5054` outlier	F	8798-8628 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo		U2'3'4'7'8'9