Ancient population · Bronze Age
Bell Beaker high WHG (Bronze Age, England)
England_BellBeaker_highWHG
Bell Beaker high WHG (Bronze Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_BellBeaker_highWHG), with 1 sample from United Kingdom, dated to c. 2260 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Mediumhigh EEF (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, Scotland), Ollsjo (Bronze Age) and England (Late Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, French Brittany and Welsh.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is K1b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2260 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Yarnton 51.80, -1.31
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- AkbariReichNature2026
- Catalogue
England_BellBeaker_highWHG
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 | Mediumhigh EEF (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_C_EBA_mediumhighEEF | 3.17 |
| 2 | Ollsjo (Bronze Age)Ollsjo_BA | 3.71 |
| 3 | England (Late Iron Age)England_LIA | 3.79 |
| 4 | Isle Of Man VA (Medieval)Isle_Of_Man_VA | 3.80 |
| 5 | Knoviz Hallstatt (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age, Czech)Czech_LBA_IA_Knoviz_Hallstatt | 3.85 |
| 6 | Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_SouthernGermany_Singen_EBA | 3.88 |
| 7 | East Yorkshire (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age, England)England_EastYorkshire_MIA_LIA | 3.90 |
| 8 | Klosterneuburg Roman (Antiquity, Austria)Austria_Klosterneuburg_Roman | 3.90 |
| 9 | England (Early Iron Age)England_EIA | 3.91 |
| 10 | Isle Of Man Viking (Medieval)IsleOfMan_Viking | 3.92 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NorwegianNorwegian | 4.44 |
| 2 | French BrittanyFrench_Brittany | 4.47 |
| 3 | WelshWelsh | 4.54 |
| 4 | DanishDanish | 4.55 |
| 5 | EnglishEnglish | 4.56 |
| 6 | DutchDutch | 4.56 |
| 7 | French Pas-de-CalaisFrench_Pas-de-Calais | 4.69 |
| 8 | English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall | 4.71 |
| 9 | IcelandicIcelandic | 4.71 |
| 10 | OrcadianOrcadian | 4.75 |
Haplogroups
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I2446 | F | 2454-2139 calBCE | Yarnton | K1b1a1 |