Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Ukraine (Mesolithic)

Ukraine_Mesolithic

Ukraine (Mesolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ukraine_Mesolithic), with 7 samples from Ukraine, dated to c. 8250–6150 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Norway (Neolithic–Hunter-Gatherer) · Norway_N_HG, Norway (Neolithic–Hunter-Gatherer) · N_HG and Norway (Mesolithic) · NOR_Meso; the nearest living populations are Finnish East, Karelian and Latvian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I2a, R1a and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include U5b (4), U4b and U5a.

Date
c. 8250–6150 BCE
Country
Ukraine
Sampled near
Vasylivka-Zaporizhia 47.93, 34.77
Sites
Vasylivka-Zaporizhia (4)
Deriivka (2)
Samples
7
Catalogue
Ukraine_Mesolithic

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.

Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Finnish EastFinnish_East15.18
2KarelianKarelian15.42
3LatvianLatvian15.72
4IngrianIngrian15.86
5Russian PinezhskyRussian_Pinezhsky15.88
6VepsianVepsian15.88
7Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast15.89
8Finnish NorthFinnish_North15.93
9EstonianEstonian15.96
10Russian PinegaRussian_Pinega15.99

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 7

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I1733F9000-7500 BCEVasylivka-ZaporizhiaU4b
I1734M6300-6000 BCEVasylivka-ZaporizhiaR1b1b R-PF6287U5b2
I1736F6242-6072 calBCEVasylivka-ZaporizhiaU5b2b1
I1763M8282-7960 calBCEVasylivka-ZaporizhiaI2a1a1b1 I-FT344596U5b2
I1819
I5876M7040-6699 calBCEDeriivkaR1a R-YP4141U5a2
I5885F6392-5921 calBCEDeriivkaU5b2b