Ancient population · Iron Age
Bulgaria (Late Iron Age)
Bulgaria_LIA
Bulgaria (Late Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Bulgaria_LIA), with 1 sample from Bulgaria, dated to c. 250 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age), Bulgaria (Early Iron Age) and Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily); the nearest living populations are Italian Apulia, Greek Apulia and Sicilian East.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is HV9.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 250 BCE
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Sampled near
- Rozovo 42.56, 25.41
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Bulgaria_LIA
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 | Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age)Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA | 3.13 |
| 2 | Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)Bulgaria_EIA | 3.13 |
| 3 | Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_1 | 3.25 |
| 4 | Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean | 3.43 |
| 5 | Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE | 3.47 |
| 6 | Albania (Medieval) · Albania_MedievalAlbania_Medieval | 3.64 |
| 7 | Bulgaria (Iron Age)Bulgaria_IA | 3.66 |
| 8 | Bivio Roman (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Bivio_Roman | 3.71 |
| 9 | Viminacium Roman elite 3 (Antiquity, Serbia)Serbia_Viminacium_Roman_elite_3 | 3.92 |
| 10 | Zadar Roman (Antiquity, Croatia)Croatia_Zadar_Roman | 3.95 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 4.16 |
| 2 | Greek ApuliaGreek_Apulia | 4.34 |
| 3 | Sicilian EastSicilian_East | 4.38 |
| 4 | Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani | 4.38 |
| 5 | Italian MoliseItalian_Molise | 4.45 |
| 6 | Italian LazioItalian_Lazio | 4.45 |
| 7 | Italian BasilicataItalian_Basilicata | 4.47 |
| 8 | Italian AbruzzoItalian_Abruzzo | 4.48 |
| 9 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 4.48 |
| 10 | Greek Cyclades MilosGreek_Cyclades_Milos | 4.55 |
Haplogroups
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I19500 | M | 300-200 BCE | Rozovo | E1b1b1a1b1 E-BY14160 | HV9 |