Ancient population · Bronze Age
England (Middle Bronze Age)
England_MBA
England (Middle Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (England_MBA), with 23 samples from South East England, United Kingdom, dated to about 1366 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Late Iron Age), Pre Christian (Iceland) and England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Orcadian and Icelandic.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (13) and I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a (4), J1c (2), J2b (2) and T2b (2).
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- about 1366 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- South East England, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Biddenham Loop 51.74, -0.70
- Sites
- Biddenham Loop (5)
East Kent Access Road (4)
Rowbarrow (4)
Over Narrows (3)
Clay Farm (2)
and 5 more - Samples
- 23
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
OlaldeReichNature2018 - Catalogue
England_MBA
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 (Late Iron Age)Scotland_LIA | 1.23 |
| 2 | Pre Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Pre_Christian | 1.31 |
| 3 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 1.37 |
| 4 | Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman | 1.38 |
| 5 | Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)Scotland_MIA_LIA | 1.40 |
| 6 | Viking (Medieval, Iceland)Iceland_Viking | 1.44 |
| 7 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 1.44 |
| 8 | England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval | 1.46 |
| 9 | England (Iron Age)England_IA | 1.47 |
| 10 | Hofstadir VA (Medieval)Hofstadir_VA | 1.48 |
Haplogroups
Y-DNA
14 men with a call
- R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21 4
- R1b1a1b1a1a2c1b1 R-CTS6919 2
- I2a1b2 I-Y10720
- R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151
- R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y153322
- R1b1a1b1a1a2a1a R-Z209
- R1b1a1b1a1a2a1b2 R-FGC29992
- R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1d R-BY39033
- R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1i R-FGC46823
- R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a5c R-FGC11358
Individuals 23
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I13710 | M | 1411-1203 calBCE | East Kent Access Road | R1b1a1b1a1a2a1b2 R-FGC29992 | I4a |
I13714 | M | 1533-1417 calBCE | East Kent Access Road | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1b1 R-CTS6919 | H1c8 |
I16403 | M | 1600-1350 BCE | Elbolton Cave | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21 | K2a |
I16454 | M | 1381-1056 calBCE | Constantine Island | R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y153322 | U5b2b2 |
I19857 | M | 1518-1425 calBCE | Rowbarrow | R1b1a1b1a1a2a1a R-Z209 | J2b1a |
I19858 | M | 1532-1431 calBCE | Rowbarrow | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21 | J2b1a |
I19859 | M | 1504-1403 calBCE | Rowbarrow | I2a1b2 I-Y10720 | H3 |
I19860 | F | 1503-1401 calBCE | Rowbarrow | T2b21 | |
I19913 | F | 1408-1226 calBCE | East Kent Access Road | J1c2e | |
I19915 | F | 1519-1422 calBCE | East Kent Access Road | K1c1 | |
I2448 | M | 1500-1000 BCE | Yarnton | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1b1 R-CTS6919 | U8a2 |
I2639 | F | 1532-1435 calBCE | Amesbury Down | T2e1a | |
I3082 | M | 1499-1326 calBCE | Canada Farm | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1d R-BY39033 | H1an1a |
I7568 | F | 1600-1300 BCE | Over Narrows | W1 | |
I7571 | M | 1489-1260 calBCE | Over Narrows | R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151 | J1c1 |
I7572 | M | 1507-1306 calBCE | Over Narrows | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1i R-FGC46823 | H13a1a |
I7574 | F | 1408-1226 calBCE | Clay Farm | H1a3 | |
I7575 | M | 1266-1019 calBCE | Biddenham Loop | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a5c R-FGC11358 | U5a1d1 |
I7577 | M | 1386-1123 calBCE | Biddenham Loop | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21 | U5a1a1 |
I7578 | F | 1256-1013 calBCE | Biddenham Loop | U5a2c | |
I7626 | F | 1399-1130 calBCE | Biddenham Loop | T2b | |
I7627 | F | 1412-1222 calBCE | Biddenham Loop | U4a | |
I7640 | M | 1434-1278 calBCE | Clay Farm | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-Z2185 | U5a2c2 |