Ancient population · Iron Age
Sweden 2 (Iron Age)
Sweden_IA_2
Sweden 2 (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sweden_IA_2), with 1 sample from Sweden, dated to c. 400 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia), Saaremaa EVA (Medieval) and Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is H1a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 400 CE
- Country
- Sweden
- Sampled near
- Oland 56.88, 16.72
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
- Catalogue
Sweden_IA_2.SGvariant
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 | Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)Estonia_EarlyViking | 2.33 |
| 2 | Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)Saaremaa_EVA | 2.35 |
| 3 | Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman | 2.55 |
| 4 | North VA (Medieval)North_VA | 2.69 |
| 5 | Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking | 2.70 |
| 6 | Oland (Iron Age)Oland_IA | 2.71 |
| 7 | Denmark (Iron Age)Denmark_IA | 2.71 |
| 8 | Norway (Iron Age)Norway_IA | 2.78 |
| 9 | South VA (Medieval)South_VA | 2.79 |
| 10 | Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_EarlyViking | 2.80 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SwedishSwedish | 2.82 |
| 2 | NorwegianNorwegian | 2.88 |
| 3 | DanishDanish | 3.04 |
| 4 | IcelandicIcelandic | 3.07 |
| 5 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.89 |
| 6 | DutchDutch | 3.91 |
| 7 | ScottishScottish | 3.92 |
| 8 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.95 |
| 9 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 3.96 |
| 10 | IrishIrish | 4.03 |
Haplogroups
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
VK522_noUDG.SG | F | 300-500 CE | Oland | H1a3b |