Ancient population · Bronze Age

Bezdanjaca (Bronze Age)

Name: Bezdanjaca (Bronze Age) (Bezdanjaca_BA)
Creator: Genoplot

Bezdanjaca_BA

Bezdanjaca (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Bezdanjaca_BA), with 2 samples from Lika-Senj, Croatia, dated to c. 1150 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Croatia (Middle–Late Bronze Age), Croatia (Early Iron Age) and Slovenia (Early Iron Age); the nearest living populations are French Provence, Italian Aosta Valley and Spanish Penedes.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H5r and U5a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1150 BCE
Country: Croatia
Origin: Lika-Senj, Croatia
Sampled near: Bezdanjača Cave 44.85, 15.42
Samples: 2
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Bezdanjaca_BA

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Croatia (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Croatia_MLBA`	2.21
2	Croatia (Early Iron Age)`Croatia_EIA`	2.47
3	Slovenia (Early Iron Age)`Slovenia_EIA`	2.52
4	Croatia (Middle Bronze Age) · Croatia_MBA`Croatia_MBA`	2.58
5	LA o1Central European (Medieval, Italy)`Italy_LA_o1CentralEuropean`	2.82
6	Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Hungary) · Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker`Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker`	2.82
7	Alt Inden Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany)`Germany_AltInden_Saxon_EMedieval`	2.89
8	Tarquinia Monterozzi (Iron Age, Italy)`Italy_TarquiniaMonterozzi_IA`	2.93
9	Maros (Bronze Age, Serbia)`Serbia_BA_Maros`	2.96
10	North Langobards 2 (Early Medieval, Italy)`Italy_North_EarlyMedieval_Langobards_2`	2.96

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	French Provence`French_Provence`	2.24
2	Italian Aosta Valley`Italian_Aosta_Valley`	2.26
3	Spanish Penedes`Spanish_Penedes`	2.34
4	French Auvergne`French_Auvergne`	2.36
5	Swiss French`Swiss_French`	2.38
6	Spanish Mallorca`Spanish_Mallorca`	2.42
7	Spanish Girona`Spanish_Girona`	2.57
8	French Occitanie`French_Occitanie`	2.67
9	Spanish Peri-Barcelona`Spanish_Peri-Barcelona`	2.70
10	Spanish Camp de Tarragona`Spanish_Camp_de_Tarragona`	2.79

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a R-Y146117

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

H5r
U5a1g

Individuals 2

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I18414` outlier	F	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		U5a1g
`I18717` outlier	M	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave	R1b1a1b1a1a R-Y146117	H5r