Ancient population · Iron Age

Scythian (Iron Age, Ukraine) · Ukraine_Scythian

Name: Scythian (Iron Age, Ukraine) · Ukraine_Scythian (Ukraine_Scythian)
Creator: Genoplot

Ukraine_Scythian

Scythian (Iron Age, Ukraine) · Ukraine_Scythian is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ukraine_Scythian), with 2 samples from Ukraine, dated to c. 660–620 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Viminacium Roman elite 1 (Antiquity, Serbia), Mursa Roman (Antiquity, Croatia) and Beska Severi Valentian Valen possible (Antiquity, Serbia); the nearest living populations are Hungarian, Ukrainian Zakarpattia and Czech.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include J2b and N1b.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 660–620 BCE
Country: Ukraine
Sampled near: Starosillіa-1 46.32, 29.47
Samples: 2
Published in: KrzewińskaGötherströmSciAdv2018
Catalogue: Ukraine_Scythian.SG variant

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	Viminacium Roman elite 1 (Antiquity, Serbia)`Serbia_Viminacium_Roman_elite_1`	2.73
2	Mursa Roman (Antiquity, Croatia)`Croatia_Mursa_Roman`	3.29
3	Beska Severi Valentian Valen possible (Antiquity, Serbia)`Serbia_Beska_Severi_ValentianValen_possible`	3.36
4	Djursland Single Grave Culture (Bronze Age, Denmark)`Denmark_Djursland_SingleGraveCulture`	3.50
5	Djursland SGC`Djursland_SGC`	3.54
6	Unetice (Chalcolithic)`Unetice_C`	3.64
7	Gnezdovo VA (Medieval)`Gnezdovo_VA`	3.68
8	Montenegro (Iron Age) · Montenegro_IA`Montenegro_IA`	3.68
9	Scythian (Iron Age, Ukraine) · Scythian_UKR`Scythian_UKR`	3.69
10	Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_EBA_Unetice`	3.87

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Hungarian`Hungarian`	3.74
2	Ukrainian Zakarpattia`Ukrainian_Zakarpattia`	3.83
3	Czech`Czech`	4.00
4	Slovakian`Slovakian`	4.03
5	Croatian`Croatian`	4.04
6	Austrian`Austrian`	4.12
7	Slovenian`Slovenian`	4.19
8	German Erlangen`German_Erlangen`	4.25
9	German East`German_East`	4.34
10	German Hamburg`German_Hamburg`	4.34

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

J2b1a6
N1b1a

Individuals 3

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	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`scy009_noUDG.SG`	M	766-422 calBCE	Starosillіa-1	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	J2b1a6
`scy010_noUDG.SG`	F	789-544 calBCE	Starosillіa-1		N1b1a
`scy011_noUDG.SG` outlier	F	356-57 calBCE	Nesterivka		A