Ancient population · Iron Age

Cimmerians (Iron Age, Ukraine)

Ukraine_Cimmerians

Cimmerians (Iron Age, Ukraine) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ukraine_Cimmerians), with 1 sample from Ukraine, dated to c. 900 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Albania (Middle Bronze Age), Montenegro (Late Bronze Age) and Macedonia (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Albanian, Albania Modern and Swiss Italian.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is H35.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 900 BCE
Country
Ukraine
Sampled near
Kartal-3 hillfort 45.32, 28.41
Samples
1
Catalogue
Ukraine_Cimmerians.SG variant
Ukraine_Cimmerians_o1.SG 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
1Albania (Middle Bronze Age)Albania_MBA3.84
2Montenegro (Late Bronze Age)MNE_LBA3.87
3Macedonia (Iron Age)Macedonia_IA3.93
4Popova CA (Chalcolithic, Croatia)Croatia_Popova_CA3.97
5Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Montenegro_MLBA4.11
6Beli Manastir Roman (Antiquity, Croatia)Croatia_BeliManastir_Roman4.14
7Pop CA (Chalcolithic)Pop_CA4.17
8Himera 480BCE 2 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_24.37
9Syrmian Srem Group (Iron Age, Hungary)Hungary_IA_Syrmian_SremGroup4.42
10Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova)Scythian_MDA4.50
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1AlbanianAlbanian4.18
2Albania ModernAlbania_Modern4.31
3Swiss ItalianSwiss_Italian4.54
4Greek Central MacedoniaGreek_Central_Macedonia4.55
5Rumelia EastRumelia_East4.67
6Italian VenetoItalian_Veneto4.69
7Italian PiedmontItalian_Piedmont4.72
8Torbeši PologTorbeši_Polog4.76
9Pomak Tikves PlainPomak_Tikves_Plain4.77
10Italian TuscanyItalian_Tuscany4.77

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 2

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
MJ-12_noUDG.SGUkraine_Cimmerians.SGF990-826 calBCEKartal-3 hillfortH35
MJ-31_noUDG.SG outlierUkraine_Cimmerians_o1.SGM1284-1055 calBCEDykyi-Sad-hillfortR1a1a1 R-Z645U5a1b1