Ancient population · Iron Age

Bulgaria (Iron Age)

Bulgaria_IA

Bulgaria (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Bulgaria_IA), with 1 sample from Bulgaria, dated to c. 640 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bulgaria (Early Iron Age), Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily) and Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily); the nearest living populations are Italian Lazio, Italian Apulia and Italian Molise.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is H.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 640 BCE
Country
Bulgaria
Sampled near
Dzhulyunitsa 43.16, 25.88
Samples
1
Catalogue
Bulgaria_IA

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
#PopulationDistance
1Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)Bulgaria_EIA2.51
2Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_12.76
3Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE2.81
4Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_BA_Mycenaean2.88
5Transtisza Maros Early Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_Transtisza_Maros_EAvar2.89
6Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean3.15
7Bivio Roman (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Bivio_Roman3.32
8Sirmium Roman (Antiquity, Serbia)Serbia_Sirmium_Roman3.32
9Zadar Roman (Antiquity, Croatia)Croatia_Zadar_Roman3.58
10Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age)Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA3.63
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Italian LazioItalian_Lazio3.77
2Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia4.02
3Italian MoliseItalian_Molise4.10
4Italian AbruzzoItalian_Abruzzo4.14
5Italian UmbriaItalian_Umbria4.15
6Greek ApuliaGreek_Apulia4.16
7Italian BasilicataItalian_Basilicata4.16
8Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania4.23
9Italian MarcheItalian_Marche4.24
10Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani4.33

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
I5769F771-541 calBCEDzhulyunitsaH