Ancient population · Iron Age

Tartessian (Early Iron Age, Spain)

Name: Tartessian (Early Iron Age, Spain) (Spain_EIA_Tartessian)
Creator: Genoplot

Spain_EIA_Tartessian

Tartessian (Early Iron Age, Spain) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Spain_EIA_Tartessian), with 1 sample from Spain, dated to c. 660 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Spain (Middle Bronze Age), Iberia Formentera (Middle Bronze Age) and Formentera (Middle Bronze Age, Spain) · Spain_MBA_Formentera; the nearest living populations are Basque Navarre North, Basque Spanish and Basque Navarre Center.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is J1c.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 660 BCE
Country: Spain
Sampled near: La Angorrilla 37.52, -5.98
Samples: 1
Published in: AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue: Spain_EIA_Tartessian

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	Spain (Middle Bronze Age)`Spain_MBA`	2.40
2	Iberia Formentera (Middle Bronze Age)`Iberia_Formentera_MBA`	2.61
3	Formentera (Middle Bronze Age, Spain) · Spain_MBA_Formentera`Spain_MBA_Formentera`	2.61
4	Spain (Late Bronze Age)`Spain_LBA`	2.78
5	Spain (Iron Age)`Spain_IA`	2.83
6	Spain (Bronze Age)`Spain_BA`	2.87
7	Spain (Early Bronze Age)`Spain_EBA`	2.97
8	SE Cabezo Redondo (Bronze Age, Spain)`Spain_SE_CabezoRedondo_BA`	3.04
9	Portugal (Middle Bronze Age)`Portugal_MBA`	3.30
10	Iberia Northeast (Bronze Age)`Iberia_Northeast_BA`	3.32

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Basque Navarre North`Basque_Navarre_North`	3.89
2	Basque Spanish`Basque_Spanish`	3.96
3	Basque Navarre Center`Basque_Navarre_Center`	4.04
4	Spanish La Rioja`Spanish_La_Rioja`	4.12
5	Basque Gipuzkoa`Basque_Gipuzkoa`	4.16
6	French South`French_South`	4.17
7	Basque Gipuzkoa Southwest`Basque_Gipuzkoa_Southwest`	4.18
8	French Bigorre`French_Bigorre`	4.21
9	Basque Roncal`Basque_Roncal`	4.21
10	Basque Soule`Basque_Soule`	4.24

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

J1c1b

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	mtDNA
`I12171`	F	779-549 calBCE	La Angorrilla	J1c1b