Greenland: ancient DNA

Y-DNA

samples

mtDNA

samples

People whose remains archaeologists found and whose DNA labs have read. The date is the middle of the dating interval, radiocarbon or by archaeological context. Branches link to branch pages where one exists. All archaeological cultures

Y-DNA

By period #

2,000–1,000 BCE

1 · 11.1%

1,000–2,000 CE

8 · 88.9%

Y-DNA

Branches #

2 · 22.2%

2 · 22.2%

1 · 11.1%

1 · 11.1%

1 · 11.1%

1 · 11.1%

1 · 11.1%

Y-DNA

Cultures #

All archaeological cultures

Medieval Greenlandic 5
Viking Age Greenlandic 2
Saqqaq Palaeo-Eskimo 1
Thule 1

mtDNA

By period #

4,000–3,000 BCE

1 · 4.3%

2,000–1,000 BCE

13 · 56.5%

1,000–2,000 CE

7 · 30.4%

mtDNA

Branches #

10 · 43.5%

4 · 17.4%

2 · 8.7%

1 · 4.3%

1 · 4.3%

1 · 4.3%

1 · 4.3%

1 · 4.3%

1 · 4.3%

1 · 4.3%

Paternal lines of the ancients #

Source: FamilyTreeDNA Discover.

Paternal lines of the ancients
Sample	Culture	Site	Date	Branch	Study
Inuk Saqqaq	Saqqaq Palaeo-Eskimo	Qeqertasussuk	2,000 BCE	Q-Z36017	Rasmussen et al. 2010
Greenland 929 VK75	Viking Age Greenlandic	V051, Western Settlement	1,019 CE	R-P310 ?	Margaryan et al. 2020
Greenland F2 VK179	Medieval Greenlandic	Ø029a, Eastern Settlement	1,050 CE	I-FT89717 ?	Margaryan et al. 2020
Greenland F6 VK183	Medieval Greenlandic	Ø029a, Eastern Settlement	1,050 CE	I-FT89717 ?	Margaryan et al. 2020
Greenland 6 VK186	Medieval Greenlandic	Ø64, Eastern Settlement	1,050 CE	I-Y68151 ?	Margaryan et al. 2020
Greenland F7 VK184	Medieval Greenlandic	Ø029a, Eastern Settlement	1,050 CE	R-BY95335 ?	Margaryan et al. 2020
Greenland F8 VK513	Viking Age Greenlandic	Ø029, Eastern Settlement	1,050 CE	R-S2886 ?	Margaryan et al. 2020
Greenland 996 VK190	Medieval Greenlandic	Eastern Settlement	1,116 CE	I-FGC69169	Margaryan et al. 2020
Thule 748 XIV-C-748	Thule	Thule	1,350 CE	Q-B143 ?	Raghavan et al. 2014

Maternal lines of the ancients #

Source: YFull; no culture given.

Maternal lines of the ancients
Sample	Site	Date	Branch
20573		3,950 BCE	D2a1
44487		1,600 BCE	A2b1
43540		1,600 BCE	A2b1c
43539		1,600 BCE	A2b1c
43538		1,600 BCE	A2b1
60932		1,600 BCE	A2a3
42613		1,600 BCE	A2b1
42612		1,600 BCE	A2b1
20527		1,600 BCE	A2b1c
41949		1,600 BCE	A2b1
60834		1,600 BCE	A2a3
41618		1,600 BCE	A2b1
58100		1,600 BCE	A2a7
41617		1,600 BCE	A2b1
100357		1,000 CE	J1c3g1b1
100355		1,000 CE	T2a
100356		1,000 CE	J1c3g1b1
82434	Kommune Kujalleq	1,050 CE	K1a3
82359	Kommune Kujalleq	1,050 CE	H4a1a4b-a
82958	Kommune Kujalleq	1,050 CE	H1ao-a2
82219	Kommune Kujalleq	1,050 CE	J1c1b
20494		—	A2a7
82209	Kommune Kujalleq	—	K1-a4a1