Ancient population · Neolithic

Krepost (Neolithic, Bulgaria)

Bulgaria_Krepost_N

Krepost (Neolithic, Bulgaria) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Bulgaria_Krepost_N), with 1 sample from Bulgaria, dated to c. 5670 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece), Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece) and Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily); the nearest living populations are Greek Dodecanese Rhodes, Greek Kos and Greek Dodecanese.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is H5.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 5670 BCE
Country
Bulgaria
Sampled near
Krepost 42.02, 25.60
Samples
1
Published in
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue
Bulgaria_Krepost_N

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
1Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA3.40
2Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean3.73
3Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_13.82
4Archaic Sub Geometric (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Archaic_SubGeometric3.87
5Aegean Mugla Degirmendere Ancient (Iron Age)Aegean_Mugla_Degirmendere_Anc4.35
6Delphi (Iron Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_IA4.36
7Turkey (Chalcolithic)Turkey_C4.40
8Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Lassithi4.51
9Old Hittite Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_OldHittitePeriod4.66
10Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age)Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA4.79
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes6.02
2Greek KosGreek_Kos6.12
3Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese6.14
4Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria6.17
5Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani6.30
6Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania6.36
7CypriotCypriot6.43
8Italian JewItalian_Jew6.44
9Greek Crete LasithiGreek_Crete_Lasithi6.45
10Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew6.50

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
I0679_dF5723-5623 calBCEKrepostH5