Ancient population · Iron Age

Western Scythian (Iron Age, Ukraine)

Name: Western Scythian (Iron Age, Ukraine) (Ukraine_IA_WesternScythian)
Creator: Genoplot

Ukraine_IA_WesternScythian

Western Scythian (Iron Age, Ukraine) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ukraine_IA_WesternScythian), with 3 samples from Ukraine, dated to c. 590–270 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scythian (Iron Age, Ukraine) · Scythian_UKR, Prescythian (Iron Age, Hungary) and Prescythian (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Tatar Mishar, Turkish Deliorman and Moksha.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2a and R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1d, T2b and W3a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 590–270 BCE
Country: Ukraine
Sampled near: Kolomak-hillfort 48.89, 33.44
Sites: Kolomak-hillfort
Mamai-Gora
Medvyn-1
Samples: 3
Published in: JärveVillemsCurrBiol2019
Catalogue: Ukraine_IA_WesternScythian.SG variant
Ukraine_IA_WesternScythian_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
#	Population	Distance
1	Scythian (Iron Age, Ukraine) · Scythian_UKR`Scythian_UKR`	2.99
2	Prescythian (Iron Age, Hungary)`Hungary_IA_Prescythian`	4.22
3	Prescythian (Iron Age)`Prescythian_IA`	4.29
4	Early Arpadian commoner`early_Arpadian_commoner`	4.67
5	Early Arpadian (Medieval, Hungary)`Hungary_EarlyArpadian`	4.71
6	Hun (Medieval, Hungary)`Hungary_Hun`	4.73
7	ACD Ostrogothic (Medieval)`MA_ACD_Ostrogothic`	4.86
8	Conqueror Commoner (Medieval, Hungary)`Hungary_Conqueror_Commoner`	4.87
9	Roman 1 (Antiquity, Turkey)`Turkey_Roman_1`	4.90
10	Conqueror commoner`Conqueror_commoner`	4.93

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Tatar Mishar`Tatar_Mishar`	6.48
2	Turkish Deliorman`Turkish_Deliorman`	6.82
3	Moksha`Moksha`	7.22
4	Erzya`Erzya`	7.23
5	Mordovian`Mordovian`	7.25
6	Turkish Rumeli`Turkish_Rumeli`	7.53
7	Moldovan`Moldovan`	7.83
8	Afrikaner`Afrikaner`	7.86
9	Hungarian`Hungarian`	7.99
10	Russian Kostroma`Russian_Kostroma`	8.00

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

J2a1a4b J-F3133
R1a1a1 R-M417

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

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.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`MJ-16_noUDG.SG`	`Ukraine_IA_WesternScythian.SG`	M	755-414 calBCE	Medvyn-1	J2a1a4b J-F3133	T2b
`MJ-34_noUDG.SG`	`Ukraine_IA_WesternScythian.SG`	M	386-198 calBCE	Kolomak-hillfort	R1a1a1 R-M417	W3a1
`MJ-46_noUDG.SG`	`Ukraine_IA_WesternScythian.SG`	F	366-171 calBCE	Mamai-Gora		J1d6
`MJ-13_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Ukraine_IA_WesternScythian_o1.SG`	F	750-404 calBCE	Kup'evaha		H11b1