Ancient population · Bronze Age

Bell Beaker high EEF (Bronze Age, England)

Name: Bell Beaker high EEF (Bronze Age, England) (England_BellBeaker_highEEF)
Creator: Genoplot

England_BellBeaker_highEEF

Bell Beaker high EEF (Bronze Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_BellBeaker_highEEF), with 4 samples from United Kingdom, dated to c. 2380–2090 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany), La Tene (Iron Age, Czech) and Lech (Early Bronze Age, Germany); the nearest living populations are French Pas-de-Calais, French Brittany and Belgian B.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (2) and I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1b and U5a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2380–2090 BCE
Country: United Kingdom
Sampled near: Amesbury Down 52.29, -1.62
Sites: Amesbury Down (2)
Windmill Fields
Samples: 4
Published in: PattersonReichNature2021
OlaldeReichNature2018
Catalogue: England_BellBeaker_highEEF

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	Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_SouthernGermany_Singen_EBA`	1.98
2	La Tene (Iron Age, Czech)`Czech_IA_LaTene`	2.02
3	Lech (Early Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_Lech_EBA`	2.02
4	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_BellBeaker`	2.18
5	England (Early Iron Age)`England_EIA`	2.18
6	Knoviz (Late Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_LBA_Knoviz`	2.34
7	England (Middle Iron Age)`England_MIA`	2.35
8	England (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)`England_MIA_LIA`	2.40
9	Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, France)`France_EBA_BellBeaker`	2.42
10	High EEF (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, England)`England_C_EBA_highEEF`	2.50

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	French Pas-de-Calais`French_Pas-de-Calais`	2.45
2	French Brittany`French_Brittany`	2.55
3	Belgian B`BelgianB`	2.86
4	Belgian`Belgian`	2.88
5	Welsh`Welsh`	2.89
6	French Nord`French_Nord`	2.93
7	Belgian C`BelgianC`	2.99
8	Belgian A`BelgianA`	3.01
9	Afrikaner`Afrikaner`	3.01
10	French Paris`French_Paris`	3.10

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

I2a1b1a1a1 I-Y3709
R1b R-L754
R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

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
`I14200`	M	2470-2239 calBCE	Amesbury Down	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151
`I1767`	M	2202-1978 calBCE	Windmill Fields	I2a1b1a1a1 I-Y3709	U5a1a1
`I2416`	M	2451-2201 calBCE	Amesbury Down	R1b R-L754	K1b1a1
`I5379`