Ancient population · Iron Age

Cimmerian (Iron Age, Ukraine)

UKR_Cimmerian

Cimmerian (Iron Age, Ukraine) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (UKR_Cimmerian), with 2 samples from Odessa Oblast, Ukraine, dated to about 597 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Dali (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan), Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Sarmatian_IA and Sarmatian (Iron Age, Moldova); the nearest living populations are Komi, Komi A and Tatar Mishar.

Period
Iron Age
Date
about 597 BCE
Country
Ukraine
Origin
Odessa Oblast, Ukraine
Samples
2
Catalogue
UKR_Cimmerian
UKR_Cimmerian_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
#PopulationDistance
1Dali (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_MLBA_Dali3.34
2Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Sarmatian_IAKazakhstan_Sarmatian_IA3.51
3Sarmatian (Iron Age, Moldova)MDA_Sarmatian3.52
4Ural Early Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_Ural_EarlySarmatian3.54
5Urals Sarmatian (Iron Age)Urals_Sarmatian3.67
6Late Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_LateSarmatian3.72
7Early Sarmatian Southern Urals (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_EarlySarmatian_SouthernUrals3.80
8Andronovo (Bronze Age, Russia) · RUS_AndronovoRUS_Andronovo3.84
9Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_SarmatianKazakhstan_Sarmatian3.86
10Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_Sarmatian3.89
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1KomiKomi7.53
2Komi AKomi_A7.64
3Tatar MisharTatar_Mishar7.71
4Russian LeshukonskyRussian_Leshukonsky7.92
5ErzyaErzya7.95
6MordovianMordovian8.01
7Russian KrasnoborskyRussian_Krasnoborsky8.29
8MokshaMoksha8.31
9Russian KostromaRussian_Kostroma8.46
10Russian PinezhskyRussian_Pinezhsky8.47

Individuals 3

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average.

SampleCatalogue entryDateOrigin
MJ31UKR_Cimmerian1170 BCEOdessa Oblast, Ukraine
MJ32UKR_Cimmerian597 BCEOdessa Oblast, Ukraine
MJ12 outlierUKR_Cimmerian_oMykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine