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
Catalogue
Sweden_IA_2.SG variant

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
1Early Viking (Medieval, Estonia)Estonia_EarlyViking2.33
2Saaremaa EVA (Medieval)Saaremaa_EVA2.35
3Weklice Wielbark Culture Roman (Antiquity, Poland)Poland_Weklice_WielbarkCulture_Roman2.55
4North VA (Medieval)North_VA2.69
5Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking2.70
6Oland (Iron Age)Oland_IA2.71
7Denmark (Iron Age)Denmark_IA2.71
8Norway (Iron Age)Norway_IA2.78
9South VA (Medieval)South_VA2.79
10Early Viking (Medieval, Denmark)Denmark_EarlyViking2.80
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SwedishSwedish2.82
2NorwegianNorwegian2.88
3DanishDanish3.04
4IcelandicIcelandic3.07
5OrcadianOrcadian3.89
6DutchDutch3.91
7ScottishScottish3.92
8ShetlandicShetlandic3.95
9German HamburgGerman_Hamburg3.96
10IrishIrish4.03

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
VK522_noUDG.SGF300-500 CEOlandH1a3b