Ancient population · Neolithic

LBK (Neolithic, Austria)

Austria_N_LBK

LBK (Neolithic, Austria) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Austria_N_LBK), with 3 samples from Austria, dated to c. 5150 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sopot (Middle Neolithic, Croatia), LBK (Neolithic) and LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Macedonia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H, H67 and K1b.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 5150 BCE
Country
Austria
Sampled near
Asparn Schletz 48.58, 16.47
Samples
3
Published in
AkbariReichNature2026
MathiesonReichNature2018
Catalogue
Austria_N_LBK

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
1Sopot (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)Croatia_MN_Sopot1.67
2LBK (Neolithic)LBK_N1.85
3LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany)Germany_EN_LBK1.88
4Popova (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)Croatia_Popova_MN1.96
5Saxony LBK (Neolithic, Germany)Germany_Saxony_LBK_N2.04
6Cardial (Neolithic, Croatia)Croatia_N_Cardial2.09
7Lasinja (Chalcolithic, Croatia)Croatia_C_Lasinja2.10
8Dillingen Steinheim LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany)Germany_DillingenSteinheim_LBK_EN2.15
9Grand Est (Early Neolithic, France)France_GrandEst_EN2.16
10Herxheim LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany)Germany_Herxheim_LBK_EN2.18
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Bulgaria NBulgaria_N2.47
2Romania NRomania_N2.56
3Macedonia NMacedonia_N3.43
4Croatia NCroatia_N4.55
5SardinianSardinian6.79
6Sardinia NSardinia_N7.33
7French CorsicaFrench_Corsica11.92
8Italian LazioItalian_Lazio12.59
9Belmonte JewBelmonte_Jew12.63
10Sicilian EastSicilian_East12.86

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

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
I5205F5300-5000 BCEAsparn SchletzH
I5207M5300-5000 BCEAsparn SchletzJ2a1 J-Z6050H67
I5208F5300-5000 BCEAsparn SchletzK1b1
I5206 outlierF5300-5000 BCEAsparn SchletzT2b