Ancient population · Bronze Age
Albania (Middle Bronze Age)
Albania_MBA
Albania (Middle Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Albania_MBA), with 1 sample from Albania, dated to c. 1790 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Cimmerians (Iron Age, Ukraine), Slovenia (Middle Bronze Age) and Ancient (Iron Age, Croatia); the nearest living populations are Italian Veneto, Swiss Italian and Italian Piedmont.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2b; its mtDNA haplogroup is H1h.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1790 BCE
- Country
- Albania
- Sampled near
- Shkrel 42.29, 19.54
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Albania_MBA
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cimmerians (Iron Age, Ukraine)Ukraine_Cimmerians | 3.84 |
| 2 | Slovenia (Middle Bronze Age)Slovenia_MBA | 4.20 |
| 3 | Ancient (Iron Age, Croatia)HRV_Anc | 4.63 |
| 4 | Mokrin Maros (Early Bronze Age, Serbia)Serbia_Mokrin_EBA_Maros | 4.67 |
| 5 | Popova CA (Chalcolithic, Croatia)Croatia_Popova_CA | 4.70 |
| 6 | Pop CA (Chalcolithic)Pop_CA | 4.70 |
| 7 | Croatia (Middle Bronze Age) · Croatia_MBACroatia_MBA | 4.71 |
| 8 | Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Montenegro_MLBA | 4.77 |
| 9 | Cinamak Ancient (Iron Age)Cinamak_Anc | 4.81 |
| 10 | Croatia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)Croatia_LBA_EIA | 4.82 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian VenetoItalian_Veneto | 4.96 |
| 2 | Swiss ItalianSwiss_Italian | 4.99 |
| 3 | Italian PiedmontItalian_Piedmont | 5.03 |
| 4 | Italian Aosta ValleyItalian_Aosta_Valley | 5.09 |
| 5 | Italian Trentino Alto AdigeItalian_Trentino_Alto_Adige | 5.19 |
| 6 | Italian EmiliaItalian_Emilia | 5.23 |
| 7 | French CorsicaFrench_Corsica | 5.23 |
| 8 | Italian TuscanyItalian_Tuscany | 5.27 |
| 9 | Italian Trentino-Alto-AdigeItalian_Trentino-Alto-Adige | 5.32 |
| 10 | Italian BergamoItalian_Bergamo | 5.33 |
Haplogroups
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.