Ancient population · Neolithic

Popova (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)

Name: Popova (Middle Neolithic, Croatia) (Croatia_Popova_MN)
Creator: Genoplot

Croatia_Popova_MN

Popova (Middle Neolithic, Croatia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Croatia_Popova_MN), with 16 samples from Croatia, dated to c. 4670–4370 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Pop (Middle Neolithic), LBK (Neolithic) and LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Macedonia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups G2a (2), I2a and J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a (5), H (2), N1a (2) and T2b (2).

Period: Neolithic
Date: c. 4670–4370 BCE
Country: Croatia
Sampled near: Popova-zemlja 45.77, 18.57
Samples: 16
Published in: FreilichPinhasiSciRep2021
Catalogue: Croatia_Popova_MN.SG variant

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	Pop (Middle Neolithic)`Pop_MN`	0.58
2	LBK (Neolithic)`LBK_N`	1.19
3	LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany)`Germany_EN_LBK`	1.21
4	Saxony LBK (Neolithic, Germany)`Germany_Saxony_LBK_N`	1.40
5	Lasinja (Chalcolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_C_Lasinja`	1.58
6	Vinca (Middle Neolithic, Hungary)`Hungary_MN_Vinca`	1.64
7	Grotta Continenza (Neolithic)`Grotta_Continenza_N`	1.80
8	South (Neolithic, Italy)`Italy_South_N`	1.86
9	Czech (Middle Neolithic)`Czech_MN`	1.89
10	LBK SCH (Neolithic)`LBK_SCH`	1.90

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	1.68
2	Romania N`Romania_N`	2.12
3	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	3.42
4	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	3.67
5	Sardinian`Sardinian`	5.81
6	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	7.11
7	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	10.67
8	Belmonte Jew`Belmonte_Jew`	11.24
9	Italian Lazio`Italian_Lazio`	11.30
10	Sicilian East`Sicilian_East`	11.61

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

G2a2a1 G-PF3148
G2a2b2a1a1 G-PF3345
I2a1b I-M436
J2a1a2b2 J-Z36834

mtDNA

14 individuals with a call

Individuals 16

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
`POP02_noUDG.SG`	F	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja		K1a
`POP04_noUDG.SG`	M	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja	J2a1a2b2 J-Z36834	H
`POP05_noUDG.SG`	F	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja		K1a5
`POP06_noUDG.SG`	F	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja		K2b1
`POP07_noUDG.SG`
`POP08_noUDG.SG`	F	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja		U8b1a1
`POP09_noUDG.SG`	F	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja		K1a4
`POP12_noUDG.SG`	F	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja		T2b
`POP13_noUDG.SG`	F	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja		T2c1d1
`POP14_noUDG.SG`
`POP16_noUDG.SG`	F	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja		N1a1a1a2
`POP19_noUDG.SG`	F	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja		N1a1a1a3
`POP24_noUDG.SG`	M	4800-4550 BCE	Popova-zemlja	I2a1b I-M436	K1a1a
`POP27_noUDG.SG`	F	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja		T2b21
`POP33_noUDG.SG`	M	4603-4453 calBCE	Popova-zemlja	G2a2b2a1a1 G-PF3345	K1a1
`POP36_noUDG.SG`	M	4700-4300 BCE	Popova-zemlja	G2a2a1 G-PF3148	H