Ancient population · Bronze Age
High EEF (Middle Bronze Age, England)
England_MBA_highEEF
High EEF (Middle Bronze Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_MBA_highEEF), with 2 samples from South East England, United Kingdom, dated to c. 1380–1270 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany), Lech (Early Bronze Age, Germany) and La Tene (Iron Age, Czech); the nearest living populations are French Pas-de-Calais, Belgian B and French Nord.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include H11a and U5b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1380–1270 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- South East England, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Amesbury Down 51.25, -0.65
- Sites
- Amesbury Down
Margett's Pit - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
OlaldeReichNature2018 - Catalogue
England_MBA_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 | 1.84 |
| 2 | Lech (Early Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_Lech_EBA | 2.00 |
| 3 | La Tene (Iron Age, Czech)Czech_IA_LaTene | 2.07 |
| 4 | Knoviz (Late Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_LBA_Knoviz | 2.07 |
| 5 | Bell Beaker late (Bronze Age, Czechia)Bell_Beaker_CZE_late | 2.23 |
| 6 | Sarrebourg Late Antiquity (Antiquity, France)France_Sarrebourg_LateAntiquity | 2.26 |
| 7 | Metz Gallo Roman (Antiquity, France)France_Metz_GalloRoman | 2.28 |
| 8 | High EEF (Middle Iron Age, England)England_MIA_highEEF | 2.29 |
| 9 | Switzerland (Early Bronze Age)CHE_EBA | 2.30 |
| 10 | Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, France)France_EBA_BellBeaker | 2.45 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | French Pas-de-CalaisFrench_Pas-de-Calais | 2.20 |
| 2 | Belgian BBelgianB | 2.21 |
| 3 | French NordFrench_Nord | 2.34 |
| 4 | Belgian CBelgianC | 2.38 |
| 5 | French ParisFrench_Paris | 2.41 |
| 6 | BelgianBelgian | 2.42 |
| 7 | French OccitanieFrench_Occitanie | 2.49 |
| 8 | Swiss GermanSwiss_German | 2.53 |
| 9 | French BrittanyFrench_Brittany | 2.59 |
| 10 | French AlsaceFrench_Alsace | 2.82 |
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.