Ancient population · Bronze Age

Bell Beaker No Steppe (Bronze Age, France)

France_BellBeaker_NoSteppe

Bell Beaker No Steppe (Bronze Age, France) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (France_BellBeaker_NoSteppe), with 1 sample from France, dated to c. 2570 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to ME Rivnac (Bronze Age), Baalberge (Chalcolithic, Czech) and TRB (Neolithic, Czech); the nearest living populations are Sardinian, Sardinia N and Croatia N.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is H1.

Date
c. 2570 BCE
Country
France
Sampled near
Hegenheim Necropole 47.56, 7.52
Samples
1
Published in
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue
France_BellBeaker_NoSteppe

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
1ME Rivnac (Bronze Age)ME_Rivnac3.01
2Baalberge (Chalcolithic, Czech)Czech_C_Baalberge3.05
3TRB (Neolithic, Czech)Czech_N_TRB3.21
4EE (Chalcolithic, Czechia)CZE_EE3.30
5Rivnac (Neolithic, Czech)Czech_N_Rivnac3.32
6TRB (Chalcolithic, Poland) · POL_TRBPOL_TRB3.32
7Grand Est (Middle Neolithic, France)France_GrandEst_MN3.40
8TRB (Bronze Age, Sweden)SWE_TRB3.40
9Jordanow (Neolithic, Czech)Czech_N_Jordanow3.42
10FBC (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_FBC3.56
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SardinianSardinian3.84
2Sardinia NSardinia_N5.76
3Croatia NCroatia_N7.43
4Spanish La RiojaSpanish_La_Rioja8.20
5Basque SouleBasque_Soule8.31
6French CorsicaFrench_Corsica8.36
7Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North8.40
8French BigorreFrench_Bigorre8.41
9Spanish CastelloSpanish_Castello8.54
10Basque Navarre CenterBasque_Navarre_Center8.56

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
I1392F2835-2472 calBCEHegenheim NecropoleH1