Ancient population · Neolithic

Sopot (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)

Name: Sopot (Middle Neolithic, Croatia) (Croatia_MN_Sopot)
Creator: Genoplot

Croatia_MN_Sopot

Sopot (Middle Neolithic, Croatia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Croatia_MN_Sopot), with 6 samples from Croatia, dated to c. 5730–4620 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to LBK (Neolithic, Austria), South (Neolithic, Italy) and Cardial (Neolithic, Croatia); the nearest living populations are Romania N, Bulgaria N and Macedonia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups C1a, G2a and J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H10, N1a, T2b and U5a.

Period: Neolithic
Date: c. 5730–4620 BCE
Country: Croatia
Sampled near: Hermanov-Vinograd 45.58, 18.69
Sites: Hermanov-Vinograd (3)
Popova-zemlja (2)
Vinkovci-Vinka
Samples: 6
Published in: PattersonReichNature2021
MathiesonReichNature2018
LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Croatia_MN_Sopot

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	LBK (Neolithic, Austria)`Austria_N_LBK`	1.67
2	South (Neolithic, Italy)`Italy_South_N`	1.69
3	Cardial (Neolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_N_Cardial`	1.74
4	Grotta Continenza (Neolithic)`Grotta_Continenza_N`	1.74
5	Nea Nikomedeia (Early Neolithic, Greece)`Greece_NeaNikomedeia_EN`	1.81
6	Saxony LBK (Neolithic, Germany)`Germany_Saxony_LBK_N`	1.92
7	Starcevo 1 (Early Neolithic, Hungary)`Hungary_EN_Starcevo_1`	1.97
8	LBK (Neolithic)`LBK_N`	2.01
9	Popova (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_Popova_MN`	2.06
10	LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany)`Germany_EN_LBK`	2.08

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Romania N`Romania_N`	1.93
2	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	2.01
3	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	2.85
4	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	4.42
5	Sardinian`Sardinian`	7.23
6	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	8.16
7	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	11.98
8	Italian Lazio`Italian_Lazio`	12.44
9	Belmonte Jew`Belmonte_Jew`	12.45
10	Italian Campania`Italian_Campania`	12.61

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

C1a2 C-Y83490
G2a2a1 G-PF3148
J2a1a2b2 J-Y13128

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 6

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
`I26741`	F	4713-4548 calBCE	Hermanov-Vinograd		T2b
`I3498`	M	5834-5656 calBCE	Popova-zemlja	C1a2 C-Y83490	U8b1b1
`I4168`	F	4777-4538 calBCE	Popova-zemlja		N1a1a
`I5077`	M	5208-4942 calBCE	Hermanov-Vinograd	G2a2a1 G-PF3148	U5a1c1
`I5078`	M	4699-4545 calBCE	Hermanov-Vinograd	J2a1a2b2 J-Y13128	H10
`I7399`	F	5216-5045 calBCE	Vinkovci-Vinka		V1