Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer
Sweden (Mesolithic) · SWE_Meso
SWE_Meso
Sweden (Mesolithic) · SWE_Meso is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (SWE_Meso), with 2 samples from Gotland, Sweden, dated to about 6821 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sweden (Mesolithic) · Sweden_Mesolithic, Motala (Hunter-Gatherer, Sweden) and Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Estonia); the nearest living populations are Finnish East, Latvian and Karelian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is U4a (2).
- Period
- Hunter-Gatherer
- Date
- about 6821 BCE
- Country
- Sweden
- Origin
- Gotland, Sweden
- Sampled near
- Stora Bjers 57.54, 18.25
- Sites
- Stora Bjers
Stora Förvar - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- GüntherJakobssonPLoSBiol2018
- Catalogue
SWE_Meso
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 | Sweden (Mesolithic) · Sweden_MesolithicSweden_Mesolithic | 1.76 |
| 2 | Motala (Hunter-Gatherer, Sweden)Sweden_Motala_HG | 2.09 |
| 3 | Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Estonia)Estonia_EMN_Narva | 3.07 |
| 4 | Latvia (Middle Neolithic)Latvia_MN | 4.49 |
| 5 | Ukraine (Neolithic)Ukraine_N | 4.60 |
| 6 | Latvia (Hunter-Gatherer)Latvia_HG | 5.44 |
| 7 | Norway (Neolithic–Hunter-Gatherer) · N_HGN_HG | 5.66 |
| 8 | Ukraine (Eneolithic)Ukraine_Eneolithic | 5.97 |
| 9 | Norway (Neolithic–Hunter-Gatherer) · Norway_N_HGNorway_N_HG | 6.12 |
| 10 | Ukraine (Mesolithic)Ukraine_Mesolithic | 6.59 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish EastFinnish_East | 19.74 |
| 2 | LatvianLatvian | 19.75 |
| 3 | KarelianKarelian | 19.90 |
| 4 | Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ | 20.02 |
| 5 | Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ | 20.06 |
| 6 | EstonianEstonian | 20.09 |
| 7 | Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast | 20.23 |
| 8 | IngrianIngrian | 20.23 |
| 9 | Finnish NorthFinnish_North | 20.31 |
| 10 | FinnishFinnish | 20.36 |
Haplogroups
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.