Ancient population · Bronze Age
High EEF (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, England)
England_C_EBA_highEEF
High EEF (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_C_EBA_highEEF), with 2 samples from East Midlands, United Kingdom, dated to c. 1990–1830 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany), Bell Beaker high EEF (Bronze Age, England) and Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, France); the nearest living populations are French Pas-de-Calais, French Brittany and Belgian B.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include U4a and U5a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1990–1830 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- East Midlands, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Carsington Pasture Cave 52.22, -0.15
- Sites
- Carsington Pasture Cave
Thanet - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
OlaldeReichNature2018 - Catalogue
England_C_EBA_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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_SouthernGermany_Singen_EBA | 2.16 |
| 2 | Bell Beaker high EEF (Bronze Age, England)England_BellBeaker_highEEF | 2.50 |
| 3 | Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, France)France_EBA_BellBeaker | 2.63 |
| 4 | High EEF (Middle Bronze Age, England)England_MBA_highEEF | 2.69 |
| 5 | High EEF (Middle Iron Age, England)England_MIA_highEEF | 2.70 |
| 6 | Lech (Early Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_Lech_EBA | 2.82 |
| 7 | England (Early Iron Age)England_EIA | 2.82 |
| 8 | England (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)England_MIA_LIA | 2.86 |
| 9 | England (Middle Iron Age)England_MIA | 2.88 |
| 10 | East Yorkshire (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age, England)England_EastYorkshire_MIA_LIA | 2.88 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | French Pas-de-CalaisFrench_Pas-de-Calais | 2.80 |
| 2 | French BrittanyFrench_Brittany | 2.82 |
| 3 | Belgian BBelgianB | 3.16 |
| 4 | French ParisFrench_Paris | 3.22 |
| 5 | BelgianBelgian | 3.22 |
| 6 | WelshWelsh | 3.28 |
| 7 | French NordFrench_Nord | 3.33 |
| 8 | Belgian CBelgianC | 3.45 |
| 9 | EnglishEnglish | 3.46 |
| 10 | English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall | 3.59 |
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.