Ancient population · Iron Age
Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)
Bulgaria_EIA
Bulgaria (Early Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Bulgaria_EIA), with 4 samples from Bulgaria, dated to c. 800 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece), Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily) and Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily); the nearest living populations are Italian Lazio, Italian Apulia and French Corsica.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b (2) and R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H5, H7c, K1c and U5a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 800 BCE
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Sampled near
- Kapitan-Andreevo 41.73, 26.33
- Samples
- 4
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Bulgaria_EIA
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 | Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_BA_Mycenaean | 2.13 |
| 2 | Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE | 2.15 |
| 3 | Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_1 | 2.38 |
| 4 | Bulgaria (Iron Age)Bulgaria_IA | 2.51 |
| 5 | Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean | 2.76 |
| 6 | Bulgaria (Late Iron Age)Bulgaria_LIA | 3.13 |
| 7 | Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age)Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA | 3.30 |
| 8 | Sicily (Iron Age)Sicily_IA | 3.40 |
| 9 | Transtisza Maros Early Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_Transtisza_Maros_EAvar | 3.45 |
| 10 | Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sicily_LBA | 3.45 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian LazioItalian_Lazio | 4.76 |
| 2 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 4.87 |
| 3 | French CorsicaFrench_Corsica | 4.93 |
| 4 | Greek ApuliaGreek_Apulia | 5.07 |
| 5 | Italian UmbriaItalian_Umbria | 5.11 |
| 6 | Italian AbruzzoItalian_Abruzzo | 5.11 |
| 7 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 5.13 |
| 8 | Italian BasilicataItalian_Basilicata | 5.14 |
| 9 | Italian MoliseItalian_Molise | 5.15 |
| 10 | Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani | 5.17 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I20180 | M | 1100-500 BCE | Kapitan-Andreevo | E1b1b1a1b1 E-BY3880 | K1c1 |
I20184 | F | 1100-500 BCE | Kapitan-Andreevo | H5 | |
I20185 | M | 1100-500 BCE | Kapitan-Andreevo | E1b1b1a1b1 E-BY3880 | H7c1 |
I20186 | M | 1100-500 BCE | Kapitan-Andreevo | R1a1a1 R-Z93 | U5a1a1 |
I19481 outlier | F | 700-500 BCE | Diamandovo | J1c | |
I20181 outlier | M | 1100-500 BCE | Kapitan-Andreevo | E1b1b1a1b1 E-BY3880 | U8b1a1 |
I20183 outlier | M | 1100-500 BCE | Kapitan-Andreevo | E1b1b1a1b1 E-BY3880 | T2 |