Ancient population · Bronze Age

Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Bulgaria)

Name: Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Bulgaria) (Bulgaria_EBA_Yamnaya)
Creator: Genoplot

Bulgaria_EBA_Yamnaya

Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Bulgaria) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Bulgaria_EBA_Yamnaya), with 2 samples from Bulgaria, dated to c. 2820–2100 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Verteba Cave Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Ukraine), Multi Cordoned Ware (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova) and Moldova (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Moksha and Erzya.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a (2).

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2820–2100 BCE
Country: Bulgaria
Sampled near: Boyanovo 42.27, 26.62
Sites: Boyanovo
Lozyanka-Mogila
Samples: 2
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Bulgaria_EBA_Yamnaya
Bulgaria_EBA_Yamnaya_o outliers

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	Verteba Cave Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Ukraine)`Ukraine_VertebaCave_CordedWare`	3.06
2	Multi Cordoned Ware (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova)`Moldova_MBA_MultiCordonedWare`	3.28
3	Moldova (Bronze Age)`Moldova_BA`	3.29
4	Dashti Kozy (Bronze Age, Tajikistan)`Tajikistan_BA_DashtiKozy`	3.54
5	Southeast Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Poland)`Poland_Southeast_CordedWare`	3.57
6	Sabatinovka (Late Bronze Age, Moldova)`Moldova_LBA_Sabatinovka`	3.63
7	Kokcha (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)`Uzbekistan_Kokcha_BA`	3.68
8	Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_CordedWare`	3.70
9	Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_CordedWare`	3.85
10	Moldova (Middle Bronze Age)`Moldova_MBA`	3.87

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Czech Modern`Czech_Modern`	8.80
2	Moksha`Moksha`	8.85
3	Erzya`Erzya`	8.85
4	Mordovian`Mordovian`	8.89
5	Russian Kostroma`Russian_Kostroma`	9.05
6	Ingrian`Ingrian`	9.17
7	Finnish Central`Finnish_Central`	9.18
8	Russian Ryazan`Russian_Ryazan`	9.18
9	Russian Tver`Russian_Tver`	9.22
10	Finnish`Finnish`	9.26

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b R-M269

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

U5a1c
U5a2b

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.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I18793`	`Bulgaria_EBA_Yamnaya`	F	2197-2036 calBCE	Lozyanka-Mogila		U5a1c
`I18794`	`Bulgaria_EBA_Yamnaya`	M	2894-2703 calBCE	Boyanovo	R1b1a1b R-M269	U5a2b
`Bul4` outlier	`Bulgaria_EBA_Yamnaya_o`	M	3011-2898 calBCE	Mednikarovo	I2a1b1a2a2a I-L699