Ancient population · Bronze Age
Battle Axe (Bronze Age)
Battle_Axe
Battle Axe (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Battle_Axe), with 3 samples from Hälsingland, Sweden, dated to about 2560 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to BAC (Bronze Age, Sweden), Unetice pre C (Bronze Age) and Czech (Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Swedish and Norwegian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is K1a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- about 2560 BCE
- Country
- Sweden
- Origin
- Hälsingland, Sweden
- Sampled near
- Viby 56.02, 14.23
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- AllentoftWillerslevNature2015
- Catalogue
Battle_Axe
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 | BAC (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_BAC | 1.67 |
| 2 | Unetice pre C (Bronze Age)Unetice_preC | 1.96 |
| 3 | Czech (Early Bronze Age)Czech_EBA | 2.02 |
| 4 | Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_EBA_Unetice | 2.13 |
| 5 | Chopice Vesele Culture (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_ChopiceVeseleCulture | 2.18 |
| 6 | Kairan (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_MLBA_Kairan | 2.24 |
| 7 | Fatyanovo Moscow (Bronze Age)Fatyanovo_Moscow_BA | 2.38 |
| 8 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_BellBeaker | 2.42 |
| 9 | Fatyanovo Yaroslavl (Bronze Age)Fatyanovo_Yaroslavl_BA | 2.43 |
| 10 | Maitan Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Maitan_MLBA_Alakul | 2.46 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 3.55 |
| 2 | SwedishSwedish | 4.17 |
| 3 | NorwegianNorwegian | 4.29 |
| 4 | DanishDanish | 4.46 |
| 5 | IcelandicIcelandic | 4.52 |
| 6 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 4.56 |
| 7 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 4.57 |
| 8 | IrishIrish | 4.72 |
| 9 | OrcadianOrcadian | 4.75 |
| 10 | ScottishScottish | 4.80 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
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.