Ancient population · Iron Age
South (Iron Age)
South_IA
South (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (South_IA), with 2 samples from Vestfold og Telemark, Norway, dated to c. 500 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Norway (Iron Age), Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland) and Saaremaa EVA (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Icelandic and Danish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include I3 and K2a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 500 CE
- Country
- Norway
- Origin
- Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
- Sampled near
- Skien nor 59.22, 9.59
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
- Catalogue
South_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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norway (Iron Age)Norway_IA | 1.41 |
| 2 | Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman | 1.97 |
| 3 | Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)Saaremaa_EVA | 1.97 |
| 4 | Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)Estonia_EarlyViking | 2.04 |
| 5 | Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking | 2.31 |
| 6 | North VA (Medieval)North_VA | 2.35 |
| 7 | South VA (Medieval)South_VA | 2.42 |
| 8 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 2.48 |
| 9 | Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_EarlyViking | 2.54 |
| 10 | Ladoga VA (Medieval)Ladoga_VA | 2.56 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SwedishSwedish | 2.45 |
| 2 | IcelandicIcelandic | 2.70 |
| 3 | DanishDanish | 2.80 |
| 4 | NorwegianNorwegian | 2.81 |
| 5 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.66 |
| 6 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 3.68 |
| 7 | IrishIrish | 3.75 |
| 8 | ScottishScottish | 3.77 |
| 9 | DutchDutch | 3.80 |
| 10 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.86 |
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.