Ancient population · Iron Age

Croatia (Early Iron Age)

Name: Croatia (Early Iron Age) (Croatia_EIA)
Creator: Genoplot

Croatia_EIA

Croatia (Early Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Croatia_EIA), with 15 samples from Croatia, dated to c. 970–270 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to LA o1Central European (Medieval, Italy), Croatia (Middle Bronze Age) · Croatia_MBA and Croatia (Middle–Late Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Italian Trentino Alto Adige, Italian Trentino-Alto-Adige and Italian Veneto.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2b (6), E1b and G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H (2), H3b (2), T1a (2) and H1.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 970–270 BCE
Country: Croatia
Sampled near: Smiljan 45.29, 15.61
Sites: Smiljan (6)
Sveti-Križ-Brdovečki (6)
Mala-Metaljka
Skradnik-Sultanov-grob
Sveti-Petar-Ludbreški
Samples: 15
Published in: PattersonReichNature2021
LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Croatia_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.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	LA o1Central European (Medieval, Italy)`Italy_LA_o1CentralEuropean`	1.30
2	Croatia (Middle Bronze Age) · Croatia_MBA`Croatia_MBA`	1.32
3	Croatia (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Croatia_MLBA`	1.39
4	Maros (Bronze Age, Serbia)`Serbia_BA_Maros`	1.43
5	La Tene (Iron Age, Hungary) · Hungary_LaTene`Hungary_LaTene`	1.58
6	Slovenia (Early Iron Age)`Slovenia_EIA`	1.60
7	Mokrin Maros (Early Bronze Age, Serbia)`Serbia_Mokrin_EBA_Maros`	1.82
8	Cetina (Middle Bronze Age, Croatia)`Croatia_MBA_Cetina`	1.86
9	La Tene (Iron Age, Austria)`Austria_IA_LaTene`	1.87
10	Tarquinia Monterozzi (Iron Age, Italy)`Italy_TarquiniaMonterozzi_IA`	2.03

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Italian Trentino Alto Adige`Italian_Trentino_Alto_Adige`	0.96
2	Italian Trentino-Alto-Adige`Italian_Trentino-Alto-Adige`	0.99
3	Italian Veneto`Italian_Veneto`	1.35
4	French Provence`French_Provence`	1.71
5	Spanish Mallorca`Spanish_Mallorca`	1.71
6	Italian Northeast`Italian_Northeast`	1.75
7	Italian Bergamo`Italian_Bergamo`	1.82
8	Spanish Baleares`Spanish_Baleares`	1.95
9	Italian Aosta Valley`Italian_Aosta_Valley`	1.98
10	Spanish Girona`Spanish_Girona`	2.09

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

9 men with a call

J2b2a1a1a1b2 J-FT115799 4
E1b1b1a1b1a14 E-Y16721
G2a2b2a G-P303
J2b2a1 J-L283
J2b2a1b J-FT184881
R1b1a1b1a1a2b1c2 R-Y14102

mtDNA

15 individuals with a call

Individuals 15

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
`I23904`	F	789-568 calBCE	Smiljan		T2b
`I23911`	M	891-797 calBCE	Smiljan	J2b2a1 J-L283	T2a1a
`I23995`	M	810-675 calBCE	Smiljan	J2b2a1a1a1b2 J-FT115799	H3b
`I23996`	F	809-779 calBCE	Smiljan		H3b
`I24638`	M	795-567 calBCE	Smiljan	J2b2a1a1a1b2 J-FT115799	U5a1g
`I24639`	M	795-567 calBCE	Smiljan	J2b2a1a1a1b2 J-FT115799	H1
`I24879`	F	774-549 calBCE	Skradnik-Sultanov-grob		H5
`I24882`	M	774-549 calBCE	Mala-Metaljka	J2b2a1a1a1b2 J-Y86930	H
`I5723`	M	514-391 calBCE	Sveti-Križ-Brdovečki	J2b2a1b J-FT184881	HV1a'b'c
`I5724`	M	382-206 calBCE	Sveti-Križ-Brdovečki	E1b1b1a1b1a14 E-Y16721	U5b1d1a
`I5725`	M	752-417 calBCE	Sveti-Križ-Brdovečki	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1c2 R-Y14102	H
`I5726`	F	538-399 calBCE	Sveti-Križ-Brdovečki		T1a2a
`I5727`	F	765-489 calBCE	Sveti-Križ-Brdovečki		J1c2
`I5728`	F	361-200 calBCE	Sveti-Križ-Brdovečki		T1a5
`I5729`	M	1051-901 calBCE	Sveti-Petar-Ludbreški	G2a2b2a G-P303	V