Ancient population · Bronze Age

Low EEF (Middle Bronze Age, England)

England_MBA_lowEEF

Low EEF (Middle Bronze Age, England) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_MBA_lowEEF), with 1 sample from United Kingdom, dated to c. 1140 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Late Iron Age), Viking (Medieval, Scotland) and Sealand (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Icelandic, Orcadian and Norwegian.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is U5b.

Date
c. 1140 BCE
Sampled near
Biddenham Loop 52.12, -0.51
Samples
1
Catalogue
England_MBA_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.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Scotland (Late Iron Age)Scotland_LIA2.13
2Viking (Medieval, Scotland)Scotland_Viking2.44
3Sealand (Iron Age)Sealand_IA2.45
4Scotland (Late Bronze Age)Scotland_LBA2.53
5Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland)Greenland_EarlyNorse2.62
6Orkney VA (Medieval, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_VA2.66
7Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA2.68
8Hiddestorf Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_Hiddestorf_Saxon_EMedieval2.70
9EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM2.71
10Early Modern (Faroes)Faroes_EarlyModern2.72
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1IcelandicIcelandic2.51
2OrcadianOrcadian2.90
3NorwegianNorwegian2.91
4IrishIrish2.93
5ScottishScottish2.98
6DanishDanish3.14
7ShetlandicShetlandic3.15
8SwedishSwedish3.49
9EnglishEnglish3.49
10English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall3.61

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
I7580F1257-1016 calBCEBiddenham LoopU5b2a1a