Ancient population · Bronze Age
Bell Beaker low res (Bronze Age, England)
Bell_Beaker_England_low_res
Bell Beaker low res (Bronze Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Bell_Beaker_England_low_res), with 1 sample from South West England, United Kingdom, dated to c. 2290 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bell Beaker low res (Bronze Age, Netherlands), Scorton Anglian (Medieval, England) and Liebenau Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Icelandic and Irish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is W1.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2290 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- South West England, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Amesbury Down 51.17, -1.77
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Bell_Beaker_England_low_res
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 | Bell Beaker low res (Bronze Age, Netherlands)Bell_Beaker_NLD_low_res | 6.33 |
| 2 | Scorton Anglian (Medieval, England)England_Scorton_Anglian | 6.39 |
| 3 | Liebenau Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_Liebenau_Saxon_EMedieval | 6.49 |
| 4 | Low EEF (Middle Iron Age, England)England_MIA_lowEEF | 6.55 |
| 5 | Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)Scotland_MBA | 6.62 |
| 6 | Ireland (Early Bronze Age)Ireland_EBA | 6.66 |
| 7 | Isle Of Man Viking (Medieval)IsleOfMan_Viking | 6.66 |
| 8 | South VA (Medieval)South_VA | 6.68 |
| 9 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_BellBeaker | 6.70 |
| 10 | Early Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Early_Christian | 6.70 |
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I2565 | M | 2456-2146 calBCE | Amesbury Down | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21 | W1 |