Ancient population · Bronze Age
Denmark (Bronze Age)
DNK_BA
Denmark (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (DNK_BA), with 2 samples from Højby, Denmark, dated to about 1412 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age), Viking (Medieval, Ireland) and Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland); the nearest living populations are Danish, German Hamburg and Dutch.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include I and T2b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- about 1412 BCE
- Country
- Denmark
- Origin
- Højby, Denmark
- Sampled near
- Sebber skole 56.44, 10.56
- Sites
- Sebber skole
Trundholm II - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- AllentoftWillerslevNature2015
- Catalogue
DNK_BA
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scotland (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)Scotland_C_EBA | 3.58 |
| 2 | Viking (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Viking | 3.70 |
| 3 | Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_MBA | 3.70 |
| 4 | Switzerland 2 (Early Bronze Age)Switzerland_EBA_2 | 3.71 |
| 5 | Alberstedt (Late Neolithic, Germany)Germany_LN_Alberstedt | 3.71 |
| 6 | Unetice (Chalcolithic)Unetice_C | 3.80 |
| 7 | Dublin VA (Medieval)Dublin_VA | 3.85 |
| 8 | Ollsjo (Bronze Age)Ollsjo_BA | 3.87 |
| 9 | Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_EBA_Unetice | 3.89 |
| 10 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_BellBeaker | 3.90 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.