Ancient population · Iron Age

Celt (Iron Age, Spain)

Spain_IA_Celt

Celt (Iron Age, Spain) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Spain_IA_Celt), with 2 samples from Spain, dated to c. 280–270 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to South East IA2 (Iron Age, France), Hassleben Germanic (Antiquity, Germany) and La Clape Bell Beaker Possible (Late Neolithic–Early–Middle Bronze Age, France); the nearest living populations are Basque Araba, Basque French and French Chalosse.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1 and U5b.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 280–270 BCE
Country
Spain
Sampled near
La Hoya 42.56, -2.59
Samples
2
Catalogue
Spain_IA_Celt
Spain_IA_Celt_o outliers

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
1South East IA2 (Iron Age, France)France_SouthEast_IA22.58
2Hassleben Germanic (Antiquity, Germany)Germany_Hassleben_Germanic2.86
3La Clape Bell Beaker Possible (Late Neolithic–Early–Middle Bronze Age, France)France_LaClape_LN_EMBA_BellBeakerPossible2.88
4Occitanie IA2 (Iron Age, France)France_Occitanie_IA22.94
5Spain (Late Iron Age)Spain_LIA2.97
6High EEF (Early Iron Age, England)England_EIA_highEEF2.98
7Spain (Iron Age)Spain_IA3.06
8Prenestini tribe (Iron Age)Prenestini_tribe_IA3.19
9Aritgues (Late Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Aritgues_LBA3.29
10Conimbriga Roman (Antiquity, Portugal)Portugal_Conimbriga_Roman3.30
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Basque ArabaBasque_Araba1.94
2Basque FrenchBasque_French2.22
3French ChalosseFrench_Chalosse2.31
4Basque BiscayBasque_Biscay2.44
5Spanish Pais VascoSpanish_Pais_Vasco2.46
6French BearnFrench_Bearn2.46
7Basque BaztanBasque_Baztan2.49
8Basque RoncalBasque_Roncal2.56
9Basque Lower NavarreBasque_Lower_Navarre2.57
10Basque SouleBasque_Soule2.59

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I3758Spain_IA_CeltF373-199 calBCELa HoyaU5b1
I3759Spain_IA_CeltM361-173 calBCELa HoyaI2a1a1a1 I-Z2049H1
I3757 outlierSpain_IA_Celt_oF400-300 BCELa HoyaJ1c1