Table 2.
Results of f4 Statistics in Ancient and Modern British Samples
| Grouping | Pop1 |
Pop2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampshire | Devon | Norfolk | ||
| Ancient | Saxon | 2.543 | 3.732 | 5.118 |
| Scotland | Argyll and Bute | 3.323 | 6.223 | 9.560 |
| North Wales | North Wales | 1.918 | 5.239 | 8.490 |
| South Wales | northern Pembrokeshire | 1.759 | 4.430 | 7.124 |
We report f4 statistics of the form f4 (Steppe, Neolithic farmer; Pop1, Pop2), representing a Z score whose positive values indicate more Steppe ancestry in Pop1 than in Pop2. Samples for Pop1 were either modern Celtic (Scotland and Wales) or ancient Saxon. Samples for Pop2 were modern Anglo-Saxon (southern and eastern England).