Ancient population · Iron Age

La Tene (Iron Age, Austria)

Austria_IA_LaTene

La Tene (Iron Age, Austria) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Austria_IA_LaTene), with 2 samples from Austria, dated to c. 350 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Slovenia (Early Iron Age), Croatia (Early Iron Age) and Maros (Bronze Age, Serbia); the nearest living populations are Italian Trentino-Alto-Adige, French Auvergne and Italian Trentino Alto Adige.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H11a and T2b.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 350 BCE
Country
Austria
Sampled near
Pottenbrunn 48.24, 15.70
Samples
2
Published in
PattersonReichNature2021
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue
Austria_IA_LaTene

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
#PopulationDistance
1Slovenia (Early Iron Age)Slovenia_EIA1.54
2Croatia (Early Iron Age)Croatia_EIA1.87
3Maros (Bronze Age, Serbia)Serbia_BA_Maros1.89
4La Tene (Iron Age, Hungary) · Hungary_IA_LaTeneHungary_IA_LaTene1.95
5Prescythian Mezocsat (Early Iron Age, Hungary)Hungary_EIA_Prescythian_Mezocsat1.97
6Tarquinia Monterozzi (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_TarquiniaMonterozzi_IA2.06
7Croatia (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Croatia_MLBA2.13
8LA o1Central European (Medieval, Italy)Italy_LA_o1CentralEuropean2.15
9La Tene (Iron Age, Hungary) · Hungary_LaTeneHungary_LaTene2.19
10Ovilava Roman (Antiquity, Austria)Austria_Ovilava_Roman2.20
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Italian Trentino-Alto-AdigeItalian_Trentino-Alto-Adige2.02
2French AuvergneFrench_Auvergne2.04
3Italian Trentino Alto AdigeItalian_Trentino_Alto_Adige2.04
4Spanish BarcelonesSpanish_Barcelones2.14
5French ProvenceFrench_Provence2.37
6Spanish MallorcaSpanish_Mallorca2.37
7Spanish Catalunya CentralSpanish_Catalunya_Central2.38
8Spanish Peri-BarcelonaSpanish_Peri-Barcelona2.39
9Italian NortheastItalian_Northeast2.40
10French OccitanieFrench_Occitanie2.40

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I11699F500-200 BCEPottenbrunnH11a2
I11701M500-200 BCEPottenbrunnR1b1a1b1a1a2a R-BY203521T2b
I11708 outlierF500-200 BCEPottenbrunnU7b