Ancient population · Bronze Age
Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, England)
England_EBA_BellBeaker
Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_EBA_BellBeaker), with 1 sample from United Kingdom, dated to c. 2280 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Unetice pre C (Bronze Age), Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands) and LNB Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Netherlands); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Icelandic and Norwegian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is H3k.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2280 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Racton Man' 50.87, -0.90
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
England_EBA_BellBeaker
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 | Unetice pre C (Bronze Age)Unetice_preC | 2.28 |
| 2 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_BellBeaker | 2.34 |
| 3 | LNB Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_LNB_EBA_BellBeaker | 2.47 |
| 4 | Sweden (Late Neolithic–Bronze Age)Sweden_LNBA | 2.58 |
| 5 | Czech (Early Bronze Age)Czech_EBA | 2.64 |
| 6 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England)England_BellBeaker | 2.74 |
| 7 | Bell Beaker low EEF (Bronze Age, England)England_BellBeaker_lowEEF | 2.74 |
| 8 | Chopice Vesele Culture (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_ChopiceVeseleCulture | 2.76 |
| 9 | Battle Axe (Bronze Age)Battle_Axe | 2.76 |
| 10 | Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_EBA_Unetice | 2.78 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SwedishSwedish | 3.85 |
| 2 | IcelandicIcelandic | 3.88 |
| 3 | NorwegianNorwegian | 3.97 |
| 4 | DanishDanish | 4.11 |
| 5 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 4.14 |
| 6 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 4.16 |
| 7 | IrishIrish | 4.34 |
| 8 | OrcadianOrcadian | 4.36 |
| 9 | ScottishScottish | 4.42 |
| 10 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 4.53 |
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 | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I27380 | M | 2453-2146 calBCE | Racton Man' | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21 | H3k1 |