Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer
Motala (Hunter-Gatherer, Sweden)
Sweden_Motala_HG
Motala (Hunter-Gatherer, Sweden) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sweden_Motala_HG), with 3 samples from Sweden, dated to c. 5760–5610 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sweden (Mesolithic) · SWE_Meso, Sweden (Mesolithic) · Sweden_Mesolithic and Latvia (Middle Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Finnish East and Karelian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a (3).
- Period
- Hunter-Gatherer
- Date
- c. 5760–5610 BCE
- Country
- Sweden
- Sampled near
- Kanaljorden 58.53, 15.05
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- MathiesonReichNature2015
- Catalogue
Sweden_Motala_HG
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) · SWE_MesoSWE_Meso | 2.09 |
| 2 | Sweden (Mesolithic) · Sweden_MesolithicSweden_Mesolithic | 2.15 |
| 3 | Latvia (Middle Neolithic)Latvia_MN | 3.71 |
| 4 | Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Estonia)Estonia_EMN_Narva | 3.73 |
| 5 | Latvia (Hunter-Gatherer)Latvia_HG | 4.60 |
| 6 | Ukraine (Neolithic)Ukraine_N | 5.64 |
| 7 | Norway (Neolithic–Hunter-Gatherer) · N_HGN_HG | 6.62 |
| 8 | Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Romania)Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic | 6.64 |
| 9 | Ukraine (Eneolithic)Ukraine_Eneolithic | 6.77 |
| 10 | Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania)Lithuania_EMN_Narva | 6.79 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LatvianLatvian | 20.21 |
| 2 | Finnish EastFinnish_East | 20.29 |
| 3 | KarelianKarelian | 20.42 |
| 4 | Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ | 20.49 |
| 5 | Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ | 20.53 |
| 6 | EstonianEstonian | 20.57 |
| 7 | Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast | 20.63 |
| 8 | IngrianIngrian | 20.73 |
| 9 | VepsianVepsian | 20.89 |
| 10 | FinnishFinnish | 20.92 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 5
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.