Ancient population · Bronze Age

Bell Beaker low EEF (Bronze Age, England)

Name: Bell Beaker low EEF (Bronze Age, England) (England_BellBeaker_lowEEF)
Creator: Genoplot

England_BellBeaker_lowEEF

Bell Beaker low EEF (Bronze Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_BellBeaker_lowEEF), with 5 samples from United Kingdom, dated to c. 2280–2090 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands), Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England) and Czech (Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Swedish and Norwegian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H4a, J1c, R1a and T2a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2280–2090 BCE
Country: United Kingdom
Sampled near: Amesbury Down 51.38, -0.91
Sites: Amesbury Down (2)
Ditchling Road
Over Narrows
Samples: 5
Published in: OlaldeReichNature2018
Catalogue: England_BellBeaker_lowEEF

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	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)`Netherlands_BellBeaker`	1.55
2	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England)`England_BellBeaker`	1.89
3	Czech (Early Bronze Age)`Czech_EBA`	1.98
4	Unetice pre C (Bronze Age)`Unetice_preC`	2.02
5	Chopice Vesele Culture (Bronze Age, Poland)`Poland_ChopiceVeseleCulture`	2.12
6	Kairan (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_MLBA_Kairan`	2.24
7	Sintashta (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_MLBA_Sintashta`	2.36
8	Fatyanovo Moscow (Bronze Age)`Fatyanovo_Moscow_BA`	2.39
9	Corded Ware (Bronze Age)`Corded_Ware`	2.39
10	LNB Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)`Netherlands_LNB_BellBeaker`	2.41

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Czech Modern`Czech_Modern`	3.86
2	Swedish`Swedish`	4.39
3	Norwegian`Norwegian`	4.44
4	Icelandic`Icelandic`	4.50
5	Danish`Danish`	4.78
6	Irish`Irish`	4.88
7	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	4.96
8	Orcadian`Orcadian`	4.98
9	Scottish`Scottish`	5.08
10	German Hamburg`German_Hamburg`	5.37

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a1c1a2b1 R-S25234
R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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
`I2417`	M	2450-2100 BCE	Amesbury Down	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21	J1c
`I2454`	F	2199-1982 calBCE	Over Narrows		R1a1a
`I2459`	F	2453-2148 calBCE	Amesbury Down		T2a1a
`I5376`
`I6774`	M	2287-2041 calBCE	Ditchling Road	R1b1a1b1a1a1c1a2b1 R-S25234	H4a1a1a