Ancient population · Iron Age

Albania (Bronze Age–Iron Age)

Name: Albania (Bronze Age–Iron Age) (Albania_BA_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Albania_BA_IA

Albania (Bronze Age–Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Albania_BA_IA), with 5 samples from Albania, dated to c. 1050 BCE – 1430 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Macedonia (Iron Age), Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age) and Croatia (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Italian Lombardy, Italian Piedmont and Italian Bergamo.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (3) and J2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include T2b (2), H1a, H1u and T1a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 1050 BCE – 1430 CE
Country: Albania
Sampled near: Çinamak 42.02, 20.37
Samples: 5
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Albania_BA_IA

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Macedonia (Iron Age)`Macedonia_IA`	1.57
2	Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Montenegro_MLBA`	1.57
3	Croatia (Bronze Age)`Croatia_BA`	1.96
4	Cetina (Middle Bronze Age, Croatia)`Croatia_MBA_Cetina`	2.19
5	Logkas (Middle Bronze Age, Greece)`Greece_Logkas_MBA`	2.22
6	EMedieval Alemanic SEurope (Medieval, Germany)`Germany_EMedieval_Alemanic_SEurope`	2.32
7	Syrmian Srem Group (Iron Age, Hungary)`Hungary_IA_Syrmian_SremGroup`	2.34
8	Albania (Medieval) · ALB_MA`ALB_MA`	2.44
9	Emona Roman (Antiquity, Slovenia)`Slovenia_Emona_Roman`	2.46
10	Palazzo Della Cancelleria Roman possible (Medieval, Italy)`Italy_PalazzoDellaCancelleria_Roman_Medieval_possible`	2.51

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Italian Lombardy`Italian_Lombardy`	2.22
2	Italian Piedmont`Italian_Piedmont`	2.28
3	Italian Bergamo`Italian_Bergamo`	2.39
4	Italian Tuscany`Italian_Tuscany`	2.42
5	Italian Emilia`Italian_Emilia`	2.44
6	Swiss Italian`Swiss_Italian`	2.68
7	Italian Veneto`Italian_Veneto`	2.68
8	Greek Thessaly`Greek_Thessaly`	2.85
9	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	2.86
10	Albanian`Albanian`	2.88

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

J2b2a J-M241
R1b1a1b R-PF7563
R1b1a1b1b3 R-Y43865
R1b1a1b1b3a1a R-CTS1450

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I14688`	M	600-400 BCE	Çinamak	R1b1a1b R-PF7563	T2b
`I14690`	M	1700-400 BCE	Çinamak	R1b1a1b1b3a1a R-CTS1450	T1a4
`I14692`	F	1500-400 BCE	Çinamak		H1a
`I16251`	M	500-50 BCE	Çinamak	R1b1a1b1b3 R-Y43865	H1u2
`I16254`	M	600-400 BCE	Çinamak	J2b2a J-M241	T2b23