Ancient population · Bronze Age

Vucedol (Bronze Age, Croatia)

Croatia_Vucedol

Vucedol (Bronze Age, Croatia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Croatia_Vucedol), with 1 sample from Croatia, dated to c. 2730 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Central (Neolithic, Italy), ALPc Szatmar (Middle Neolithic, Hungary) and Herxheim LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Macedonia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is T2c.

Date
c. 2730 BCE
Country
Croatia
Sampled near
Vučedol-Tell 45.34, 19.06
Samples
1
Published in
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue
Croatia_Vucedol

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
#PopulationDistance
1Central (Neolithic, Italy)Italy_Central_N3.30
2ALPc Szatmar (Middle Neolithic, Hungary)Hungary_MN_ALPc_Szatmar3.33
3Herxheim LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany)Germany_Herxheim_LBK_EN3.39
4Starcevo (Early Neolithic, Serbia)Serbia_EN_Starcevo3.46
5Popova (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)Croatia_Popova_MN3.47
6Ripabianca di Monterado (Neolithic)Ripabianca_di_Monterado_N3.50
7Grand Est (Early Neolithic, France)France_GrandEst_EN3.50
8LBK (Neolithic, Austria)Austria_N_LBK3.54
9Lasinja (Chalcolithic, Croatia)Croatia_C_Lasinja3.55
10Lengyel (Late Neolithic, Hungary)Hungary_LN_Lengyel3.63
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Bulgaria NBulgaria_N3.78
2Romania NRomania_N3.93
3Macedonia NMacedonia_N4.85
4Croatia NCroatia_N5.62
5SardinianSardinian6.31
6Sardinia NSardinia_N7.46
7French CorsicaFrench_Corsica11.34
8Italian LazioItalian_Lazio11.93
9Belmonte JewBelmonte_Jew12.15
10Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia12.28

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I2792M2872-2580 calBCEVučedol-TellG2a2a1a2a2a1 G-Y140827T2c1d1