Ancient population · Iron Age
Wales (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)
Wales_MIA_LIA
Wales (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Wales_MIA_LIA), with 1 sample from Wales, United Kingdom, dated to c. 280 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland), England (Middle Bronze Age) and Ireland (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Norwegian and Irish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is X2b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 280 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- Wales, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Dinorben 53.27, -3.55
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Wales_MIA_LIA
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_MBA | 3.14 |
| 2 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 3.34 |
| 3 | Ireland (Bronze Age)IRL_BA | 3.35 |
| 4 | Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval)Viking_Age_Pre_Christian | 3.37 |
| 5 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 3.37 |
| 6 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 3.38 |
| 7 | Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)Scotland_MBA | 3.44 |
| 8 | BAC (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_BAC | 3.45 |
| 9 | Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman | 3.45 |
| 10 | Hofstadir VA (Medieval)Hofstadir_VA | 3.45 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 3.54 |
| 2 | NorwegianNorwegian | 3.56 |
| 3 | IrishIrish | 3.65 |
| 4 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.67 |
| 5 | ScottishScottish | 3.77 |
| 6 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.86 |
| 7 | DanishDanish | 3.93 |
| 8 | IcelandicIcelandic | 3.97 |
| 9 | WelshWelsh | 4.11 |
| 10 | DutchDutch | 4.12 |
Haplogroups
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.