Ancient population · Iron Age

Wales (Iron Age)

Wales_IA

Wales (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Wales_IA), with 1 sample from Wales, United Kingdom, dated to c. 90 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Knoviz Hallstatt (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age, Czech), Mediumhigh EEF (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, Scotland) and Viking (Medieval, Ireland); the nearest living populations are Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is U4b.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 90 BCE
Origin
Wales, United Kingdom
Sampled near
Llanmaes 51.42, -3.47
Samples
1
Catalogue
Wales_IA

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
1Knoviz Hallstatt (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age, Czech)Czech_LBA_IA_Knoviz_Hallstatt2.55
2Mediumhigh EEF (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_C_EBA_mediumhighEEF2.63
3Viking (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Viking2.74
4Alemannic (Medieval)MA_Alemannic2.88
5Eyrephort VA (Medieval)Eyrephort_VA2.91
6Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)Scotland_MBA2.92
7Early Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Early_Christian2.99
8Alberstedt (Late Neolithic, Germany)Germany_LN_Alberstedt3.00
9Funen VA (Medieval)Funen_VA3.05
10Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_BellBeaker3.06
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1DutchDutch3.63
2NorwegianNorwegian3.64
3DanishDanish3.72
4WelshWelsh3.74
5ScottishScottish3.94
6OrcadianOrcadian3.96
7French BrittanyFrench_Brittany3.99
8IrishIrish3.99
9EnglishEnglish4.02
10GermanGerman4.06

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 1

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
I6771F169 calBCE - 2 calCELlanmaesU4b1a