Ancient population · Bronze Age

Croatia (Middle–Late Bronze Age)

Name: Croatia (Middle–Late Bronze Age) (Croatia_MLBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Croatia_MLBA

Croatia (Middle–Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Croatia_MLBA), with 16 samples from Croatia, dated to c. 1500–1150 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Slovenia (Early Iron Age), Croatia (Early Iron Age) and Maros (Bronze Age, Serbia); the nearest living populations are French Provence, Swiss French and Italian Northeast.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (5); its mtDNA haplogroups include T2c (2), U5a (2), U5b (2) and H1.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1500–1150 BCE
Country: Croatia
Sampled near: Bezdanjača Cave 44.85, 15.42
Samples: 16
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Croatia_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.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Slovenia (Early Iron Age)`Slovenia_EIA`	1.36
2	Croatia (Early Iron Age)`Croatia_EIA`	1.39
3	Maros (Bronze Age, Serbia)`Serbia_BA_Maros`	1.57
4	La Tene (Iron Age, Hungary) · Hungary_IA_LaTene`Hungary_IA_LaTene`	1.63
5	La Tene (Iron Age, Hungary) · Hungary_LaTene`Hungary_LaTene`	1.81
6	Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Hungary) · Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker`Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker`	1.88
7	Croatia (Middle Bronze Age) · Croatia_MBA`Croatia_MBA`	1.96
8	Mokrin Maros (Early Bronze Age, Serbia)`Serbia_Mokrin_EBA_Maros`	1.97
9	LA o1Central European (Medieval, Italy)`Italy_LA_o1CentralEuropean`	2.04
10	Prescythian Mezocsat (Early Iron Age, Hungary)`Hungary_EIA_Prescythian_Mezocsat`	2.08

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	French Provence`French_Provence`	1.60
2	Swiss French`Swiss_French`	1.70
3	Italian Northeast`Italian_Northeast`	1.78
4	Italian Aosta Valley`Italian_Aosta_Valley`	1.81
5	French Auvergne`French_Auvergne`	1.83
6	Italian Trentino Alto Adige`Italian_Trentino_Alto_Adige`	1.87
7	Italian Trentino-Alto-Adige`Italian_Trentino-Alto-Adige`	1.91
8	Spanish Mallorca`Spanish_Mallorca`	2.16
9	Italian Veneto`Italian_Veneto`	2.21
10	Spanish Penedes`Spanish_Penedes`	2.23

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

5 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2 3
R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151 2

mtDNA

16 individuals with a call

Individuals 25

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. 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
`I18072`	M	2000-1000 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	H5n
`I18077`	F	2000-1000 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		U5a1a1
`I18082`	F	2000-1000 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		U5a1
`I18087`	F	2000-1000 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		K1a
`I18413`	F	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		H1
`I18416`	F	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		H3
`I18417`	M	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	X2b
`I18724`	F	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		HV0e
`I18727`	F	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		T2c1d
`I18729`	M	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	T2b
`I18730`	F	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		U5b2b5
`I18732`	M	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	HV24
`I18734`	F	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		T2a1b1
`I18737`	M	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	U5b1c1a
`I18738`	F	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		H5a6
`I18739`	F	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		T2c1d
`I18071` outlier	M	2000-1000 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a3 R-BY30952	J1c2
`I18073` outlier	F	2000-1000 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		U5b1c1
`I18078` outlier	F	2000-1000 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		H5r
`I18079` outlier	F	2000-1000 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		H46
`I18415` outlier	M	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	H1aj1
`I18720` outlier	F	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave		U8b1b1
`I18721` outlier	M	1655-1950 calCE	Bezdanjača Cave	I2a1a2b1a1 I-Y3120	T2b11
`I18723` outlier	M	1000-2000 CE	Bezdanjača Cave	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	V1a1
`I18725` outlier	M	1500-800 BCE	Bezdanjača Cave	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	V10b1