Ancient population · Medieval

Skara VA (Medieval)

Skara_VA

Skara VA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Skara_VA), with 19 samples from Gotland, Sweden, dated to c. 1050 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Viking (Medieval, Denmark), Zealand Saxon (Medieval, Denmark) and Sealand VA (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Danish, Norwegian and Dutch.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I1 (4), R1b (4) and R1a (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a (3), T2b (3), H1c (2) and H1.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1050 CE
Country
Sweden
Origin
Gotland, Sweden
Sampled near
Varnhem 58.38, 13.65
Samples
19
Catalogue
Skara_VA

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
#PopulationDistance
1Viking (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_Viking0.83
2Zealand Saxon (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_Zealand_Saxon_Medieval0.92
3Sealand VA (Medieval)Sealand_VA0.95
4Sealand EVA (Medieval)Sealand_EVA0.96
5Funen VA (Medieval)Funen_VA1.01
6Viking (Medieval, England)England_Viking1.08
7Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_EarlyViking1.09
8Langeland VA (Medieval)Langeland_VA1.16
9Oxford VA (Medieval, England)England_Oxford_VA1.17
10Groningen Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands)Netherlands_Groningen_Saxon_Medieval1.19
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1DanishDanish0.86
2NorwegianNorwegian1.11
3DutchDutch1.47
4SwedishSwedish1.49
5IcelandicIcelandic1.54
6German HamburgGerman_Hamburg1.59
7OrcadianOrcadian1.70
8ScottishScottish1.80
9WelshWelsh1.95
10EnglishEnglish1.98

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

16 men with a call

mtDNA

19 individuals with a call

Individuals 30

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
VK29M900-1200 CEVarnhemI1 I-L121T2b3b
VK30M900-1200 CEVarnhemR1a1a1 R-M417U5b1c2b
VK303F900-1200 CEVarnhemT2a1b1a1
VK306M900-1200 CEVarnhemI1 I1H15a1
VK308M900-1200 CEVarnhemR1b1a1b1a1a1b1a1 R-BY33041H1c
VK33F900-1200 CEVarnhemK1a4a1
VK34M900-1200 CEVarnhemR1b1a1b1a1a1c2b2a R-Z8HV
VK35M900-1200 CEVarnhemR1a1a1 R-Z283T2f1a1
VK39M900-1200 CEVarnhemG2a2b2a1a1b G-Z1823T2b4b
VK399M900-1200 CEVarnhemN1a1a1a1a1a1a N-L550H4a1a1a
VK40M900-1200 CEVarnhemR1b1a1b1a1a2b1c1b R-S7402T1a1
VK400M900-1200 CEVarnhemI1a1b1a1d3b I-BY35255H1
VK401M900-1200 CEVarnhemR1a1a1 R-M417H2a2b
VK402F900-1200 CEVarnhemJ2a1a1
VK404M900-1200 CEVarnhemI1 I-L121U4a2
VK405M900-1200 CEVarnhemR1b1a1b1a1a2c1a5c R-S5488K1a10
VK406M900-1200 CEVarnhemN1a1a1a1a1a1a6 N-Y64154K1a4a1
VK407M900-1200 CEVarnhemI1 I1H1c21
VK42M900-1200 CEVarnhemJ2a1a1b2a1b1b2c J-TY449104T2b11
VK309 outlierM900-1200 CEVarnhemR1a1a1b1a1a1c1 R-L1029K1b1c
VK31 outlierM900-1200 CEVarnhemR1 R1I4a
VK395 outlierM900-1200 CEVarnhemN1a1a1a1a1a2 N-Y5005X2c1
VK396 outlierM900-1200 CEVarnhemR1b1a1b1a1a1c1a1 R-BY18956J1c2t
VK397 outlierM900-1200 CEVarnhemR1a1a1 R-S6842J1b1a1
VK398 outlierM900-1200 CEVarnhemT1a2b1 T-FT39851H1b1
VK403 outlierM900-1200 CEVarnhemR1b1a1b1a1a2a1b1a1a R-Z205K1a4a1a2b
VK424 outlierM900-1200 CEVarnhemR1b1a1b1a1a1c2b1b R-Z159K2b1a1
VK425 outlierM900-1200 CEVarnhemR1b1a1b1a1a1c2b R-Z331U3a1
VK426 outlierM900-1200 CEVarnhemR1b1a1b R-M269U6a1a1
VK427 outlierM900-1200 CEVarnhemI2a1b1a2a1a1a1 I-Y5362K1a4