Ancient population · Bronze Age

Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, France)

Name: Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, France) (France_BellBeaker)
Creator: Genoplot

France_BellBeaker

Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, France) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (France_BellBeaker), with 4 samples from France, dated to c. 2380–2230 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Unetice (Chalcolithic), Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age) and Halberstadt (Late Bronze Age, Germany); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include H, J1c, U5a and X2b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2380–2230 BCE
Country: France
Sampled near: PAC de la Sente 48.38, 6.71
Sites: PAC de la Sente (2)
Les Villas d'Aurele
Rouffach
Samples: 4
Published in: OlaldeReichNature2018
PattersonReichNature2021
Catalogue: France_BellBeaker

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Unetice (Chalcolithic)`Unetice_C`	1.78
2	Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)`Netherlands_MBA`	1.89
3	Halberstadt (Late Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_LBA_Halberstadt`	1.92
4	England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)`England_C_EBA`	1.94
5	Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_EBA_Unetice`	1.96
6	Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)`Scotland_MBA`	2.00
7	Switzerland 2 (Early Bronze Age)`Switzerland_EBA_2`	2.00
8	Czech (Early Bronze Age)`Czech_EBA`	2.20
9	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Poland)`Poland_BellBeaker`	2.20
10	Ireland (Bronze Age)`IRL_BA`	2.21

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Norwegian`Norwegian`	2.69
2	Swedish`Swedish`	2.94
3	Danish`Danish`	2.96
4	Icelandic`Icelandic`	3.22
5	Dutch`Dutch`	3.26
6	Irish`Irish`	3.28
7	Scottish`Scottish`	3.34
8	Orcadian`Orcadian`	3.34
9	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	3.35
10	Czech Modern`Czech_Modern`	3.45

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a R-FGC5817 2
R1b1a1b1a1 R-L52

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

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
`I1381`	M	2500-2100 BCE	PAC de la Sente	R1b1a1b1a1a R-FGC5817	H
`I1382`	M	2447-2136 calBCE	PAC de la Sente	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	U5a2c3a
`I1390`	M	2464-2296 calBCE	Les Villas d'Aurele	R1b1a1b1a1 R-L52	X2b4a
`I1391_enhanced`	F	2400-2058 calBCE	Rouffach		J1c4