Ancient population · Iron Age

Spain (Iron Age)

Name: Spain (Iron Age) (Spain_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Spain_IA

Spain (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Spain_IA), with 6 samples from Spain, dated to c. 600–200 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Iberia Menorca (Late Bronze Age), Aritgues (Late Bronze Age, Spain) and Menorca new (Late Bronze Age, Spain); the nearest living populations are Basque Navarre North, Basque Gipuzkoa and Basque Spanish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (4); its mtDNA haplogroups include H, H1, I1 and K1a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 600–200 BCE
Country: Spain
Sampled near: Els Estrets de la Rata 41.09, 1.42
Sites: Els Estrets de la Rata (2)
Can Olivé
Font de la Canya
Mas d'en Boixos-1
Puig de Sant Andreu
Samples: 6
Published in: OlaldeReichScience2019
PattersonReichNature2021
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue: Spain_IA
Spain_IA_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
#	Population	Distance
1	Iberia Menorca (Late Bronze Age)`Iberia_Menorca_LBA`	1.84
2	Aritgues (Late Bronze Age, Spain)`Spain_Aritgues_LBA`	1.89
3	Menorca new (Late Bronze Age, Spain)`Spain_Menorca_LBA_new`	2.08
4	Spain (Middle Bronze Age)`Spain_MBA`	2.09
5	Spain (Early Bronze Age)`Spain_EBA`	2.33
6	Spain (Late Bronze Age)`Spain_LBA`	2.33
7	Iberia Formentera (Middle Bronze Age)`Iberia_Formentera_MBA`	2.51
8	Formentera (Middle Bronze Age, Spain) · Spain_MBA_Formentera`Spain_MBA_Formentera`	2.51
9	Spain (Late Iron Age)`Spain_LIA`	2.54
10	Spain (Bronze Age)`Spain_BA`	2.66

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Basque Navarre North`Basque_Navarre_North`	1.99
2	Basque Gipuzkoa`Basque_Gipuzkoa`	2.11
3	Basque Spanish`Basque_Spanish`	2.14
4	Basque Roncal`Basque_Roncal`	2.23
5	Basque Gipuzkoa Southwest`Basque_Gipuzkoa_Southwest`	2.26
6	Basque Biscay`Basque_Biscay`	2.34
7	Basque Navarre Center`Basque_Navarre_Center`	2.36
8	French Bigorre`French_Bigorre`	2.36
9	Basque Soule`Basque_Soule`	2.37
10	Basque Lower Navarre`Basque_Lower_Navarre`	2.38

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151
R1b1a1b1a1a1c1a R-Y24832
R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-BY3332
R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-Y132498

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 12

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	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I12410`	`Spain_IA`	M	537-381 calBCE	Mas d'en Boixos-1	R1b1a1b1a1a1c1a R-Y24832	H
`I3320`	`Spain_IA`	M	300-100 BCE	Els Estrets de la Rata	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	I1
`I3321`	`Spain_IA`	M	300-100 BCE	Els Estrets de la Rata	R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-BY3332	U3a1
`I3323`	`Spain_IA`	M	373-199 calBCE	Puig de Sant Andreu	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-Y132498	X2b
`I3496`	`Spain_IA`		300-200 BCE	Can Olivé		H1
`I4556`	`Spain_IA`	F	700-500 BCE	Font de la Canya		K1a12a
`I12878` outlier	`Spain_IA`	F	516-364 calBCE	Mas d'en Boixos-1		H3
`I12879` outlier	`Spain_IA`	F	725-394 calBCE	Hort d'en Grimau		HV0
`I3321_d` outlier	`Spain_IA`	M	300-100 BCE	Els Estrets de la Rata	R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-BY3332	U3a1
`I3322` outlier	`Spain_IA`	F	600-500 BCE	Puig de la Misericordia		H1t
`I3324` outlier	`Spain_IA_o`	M	359-172 calBCE	Puig de Sant Andreu	R1b1a1 R-P297	H1
`I3327` outlier	`Spain_IA`	M	250-200 BCE	Puig de Sant Andreu	R1b1a1b R-M269	J2b1a