Haplogroup U5

mtDNA (maternal line) · one of the U lineages

The maternal signature of Europe’s Mesolithic hunter-gatherers — about 82% of the earliest British samples in our data. [isogg][aadr]

The British record

In the ancient British record

Frequency of U5 among ancient samples from Britain & Ireland, by period — from our aggregation of the CC0 Allen Ancient DNA Resource. See the full chart.

Bronze Age 17%
Early Medieval 12%
Iron Age 11%
Mesolithic 82%
Neolithic 14%
Roman 29%

For a fuller account, search “Haplogroup U5” in a reference such as Wikipedia or ISOGG.

Remember: a haplogroup is a deep, broad lineage shared by many people — not an ethnicity, a nationality or a clan. See what DNA can and can’t tell you.

Sources

[isogg] International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG), Y-DNA Haplogroup Tree. Reference — cite for haplogroup nomenclature only (not frequencies) · link
[aadr] Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) v66, Mallick & Reich (Harvard), doi:10.7910/DVN/FFIDCW. CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication) · link