Ancient population · Iron Age

Wales (Middle Iron Age)

Wales_MIA

Wales (Middle Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Wales_MIA), with 1 sample from Wales, United Kingdom, dated to c. 300 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to England (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age), England (Middle Iron Age) and England (Late Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Welsh, Orcadian and English.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is K1a.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 300 BCE
Origin
Wales, United Kingdom
Sampled near
RAF St Athan 51.41, -3.42
Samples
1
Catalogue
Wales_MIA

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
1England (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)England_MIA_LIA1.81
2England (Middle Iron Age)England_MIA1.92
3England (Late Iron Age)England_LIA1.93
4England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval1.95
5England (Iron Age)England_IA1.96
6East Yorkshire (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age, England)England_EastYorkshire_MIA_LIA1.97
7England (Early Iron Age)England_EIA2.02
8Roman (Iron Age, England)England_IA_Roman2.07
9England (Late Bronze Age)England_LBA2.15
10Schleswig Saxon LMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_Schleswig_Saxon_LMedieval2.20
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1WelshWelsh2.13
2OrcadianOrcadian2.14
3EnglishEnglish2.26
4ScottishScottish2.27
5DutchDutch2.35
6English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall2.39
7French BrittanyFrench_Brittany2.45
8DanishDanish2.45
9IrishIrish2.47
10IcelandicIcelandic2.69

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I16405M397-205 calBCERAF St AthanR1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-A11676K1a