Ancient population · Bronze Age

Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England)

England_BellBeaker

Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_BellBeaker), with 18 samples from United Kingdom, dated to c. 2300–1990 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (11); its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a (3), T2b (3), U5a (2) and H1.

Date
c. 2300–1990 BCE
Sampled near
Yarnton 52.03, -1.32
Sites
Yarnton (3)
Flying School (2)
Trumpington Meadows (2)
Wick Barrow (2)
Amesbury Down
and 8 more
Samples
18
Catalogue
England_BellBeaker
England_BellBeaker_o outliers

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
1Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_BellBeaker0.99
2England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA1.21
3Czech (Early Bronze Age)Czech_EBA1.24
4Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_BellBeaker1.56
5Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA1.69
6Unetice pre C (Bronze Age)Unetice_preC1.80
7Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_EBA_Unetice1.82
8LNB Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_LNB_EBA_BellBeaker1.86
9Ireland (Bronze Age)IRL_BA1.87
10Bell Beaker low EEF (Bronze Age, England)England_BellBeaker_lowEEF1.89
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NorwegianNorwegian3.03
2IcelandicIcelandic3.07
3Czech ModernCzech_Modern3.16
4SwedishSwedish3.19
5DanishDanish3.39
6IrishIrish3.50
7OrcadianOrcadian3.62
8ScottishScottish3.70
9ShetlandicShetlandic3.80
10DutchDutch4.03

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

11 men with a call

mtDNA

18 individuals with a call

Individuals 20

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I1770England_BellBeakerF2400-1600 BCEStaxton BeaconU5b1d2
I2418England_BellBeakerF2452-2200 calBCEAmesbury DownK1a4a1
I2443England_BellBeakerF2286-2028 calBCEYarntonT2c1d
I2445England_BellBeakerM2200-1985 calBCEYarntonR1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21X2b6
I2447England_BellBeakerM2120-1898 calBCEYarntonR1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a R-BY79134K1a26
I2450England_BellBeakerF2455-2200 calBCESpring Road cemeteryK1a1b1g
I2452England_BellBeakerM2199-2032 calBCEDairy FarmR1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21H1e1a
I2453England_BellBeakerM2290-2038 calBCEWest DeepingR1b1a1b1a1a R-L151K2a
I2455England_BellBeakerF2128-1900 calBCEOver NarrowsU5a2c3a
I3255England_BellBeakerF2139-1947 calBCETrumpington MeadowsT2b
I3256England_BellBeakerM2269-2027 calBCETrumpington MeadowsR1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21T2b
I4950England_BellBeakerM2800-1800 BCERFC Central Flying SchoolR1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21U5a2d1
I4951England_BellBeakerM2800-1800 BCEFlying SchoolR1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y91624K1b1a1
I5382England_BellBeakerM2282-1980 calBCEWindmill FieldsR1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1k R-BY203913T2b
I5512England_BellBeakerF2800-1800 BCEFlying SchoolJ1c2
I5513England_BellBeakerM2800-1800 BCEFigheldeanR1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21V
I6775England_BellBeakerM2500-1900 BCEWick BarrowR1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21H1
I6776England_BellBeakerM2400-2000 BCEWick BarrowR1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y232577R
I6679 outlierEngland_BellBeaker_oM2129-1889 calBCELow HauxleyR1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y279808J1c1b1
I6778 outlierEngland_BellBeaker_oF2500-1900 BCEWilsfordK1a26