Ancient population · Bronze Age
Low EEF (Late Bronze Age, England)
England_LBA_lowEEF
Low EEF (Late Bronze Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_LBA_lowEEF), with 2 samples from South East England, United Kingdom, dated to c. 980 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Middle Bronze Age), Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age) and Ireland (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Danish and Irish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is H61.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 980 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- South East England, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- East Kent Access Road 51.33, 1.35
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
England_LBA_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 | Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)Scotland_MBA | 1.89 |
| 2 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 1.99 |
| 3 | Ireland (Bronze Age)IRL_BA | 2.01 |
| 4 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 2.07 |
| 5 | Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)Scotland_MIA_LIA | 2.13 |
| 6 | Pre Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Pre_Christian | 2.18 |
| 7 | Viking (Medieval, Iceland)Iceland_Viking | 2.19 |
| 8 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 2.20 |
| 9 | Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_MBA | 2.21 |
| 10 | Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman | 2.24 |
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I13711 | M | 1048-920 calBCE | East Kent Access Road | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-BY28643 | H61 |
I5383 | South East England, United Kingdom |