Ancient population · Bronze Age
Low EEF (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, England)
England_C_EBA_lowEEF
Low EEF (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_C_EBA_lowEEF), with 1 sample from United Kingdom, dated to c. 2080 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Netherlands (Early Bronze Age), Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Poland) and Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Icelandic and Swedish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is X2b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2080 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Carsington Pasture Cave 53.08, -1.64
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- OlaldeReichNature2018
- Catalogue
England_C_EBA_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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netherlands (Early Bronze Age)Netherlands_EBA | 3.42 |
| 2 | Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_EBA_Unetice | 3.54 |
| 3 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_BellBeaker | 3.60 |
| 4 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England)England_BellBeaker | 3.61 |
| 5 | South VA (Medieval)South_VA | 3.64 |
| 6 | Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)Scotland_MBA | 3.70 |
| 7 | Bell Beaker low EEF (Bronze Age, England)England_BellBeaker_lowEEF | 3.71 |
| 8 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age–Late Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA_LBA | 3.77 |
| 9 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 3.77 |
| 10 | North Yorkshire (Early Bronze Age, England)England_NorthYorkshire_EBA | 3.80 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NorwegianNorwegian | 4.70 |
| 2 | IcelandicIcelandic | 4.78 |
| 3 | SwedishSwedish | 4.81 |
| 4 | DanishDanish | 4.98 |
| 5 | IrishIrish | 5.12 |
| 6 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 5.16 |
| 7 | ScottishScottish | 5.29 |
| 8 | DutchDutch | 5.34 |
| 9 | OrcadianOrcadian | 5.35 |
| 10 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 5.38 |
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.