Ancient population · Bronze Age
Bulgaria (Middle–Late Bronze Age)
Bulgaria_MLBA
Bulgaria (Middle–Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Bulgaria_MLBA), with 1 sample from Bulgaria, dated to c. 1690 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Chanchar (Middle Bronze Age, Kazakhstan), Southeast Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Poland) and Srubnaya Alakul (Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Finnish Southeast and Swedish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1690 BCE
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Sampled near
- Kairyaka 42.13, 25.50
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- MathiesonReichNature2018
- Catalogue
Bulgaria_MLBA
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 | Chanchar (Middle Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Chanchar_MBA | 2.89 |
| 2 | Southeast Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_Southeast_CordedWare | 3.01 |
| 3 | Srubnaya Alakul (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Srubnaya_Alakul | 3.03 |
| 4 | Dashti Kozy (Bronze Age, Tajikistan)Tajikistan_BA_DashtiKozy | 3.03 |
| 5 | Xinjiang Kuokesuxi Andronovo (Late Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Kuokesuxi_LBA_Andronovo | 3.05 |
| 6 | Yaroslavl Fatyanovo (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Yaroslavl_Fatyanovo_BA | 3.12 |
| 7 | Multi Cordoned Ware (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova)Moldova_MBA_MultiCordonedWare | 3.16 |
| 8 | Moscow Fatyanovo (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Moscow_Fatyanovo_BA | 3.18 |
| 9 | Kokcha (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Kokcha_BA | 3.18 |
| 10 | Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_CordedWare | 3.22 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 7.02 |
| 2 | Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast | 7.56 |
| 3 | SwedishSwedish | 7.80 |
| 4 | NorwegianNorwegian | 8.09 |
| 5 | IngrianIngrian | 8.09 |
| 6 | Finnish CentralFinnish_Central | 8.14 |
| 7 | IcelandicIcelandic | 8.20 |
| 8 | ErzyaErzya | 8.22 |
| 9 | MokshaMoksha | 8.22 |
| 10 | FinnishFinnish | 8.22 |
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.