Ancient population · Bronze Age

Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, France)

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

France_EBA_BellBeaker

Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, France) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (France_EBA_BellBeaker), with 2 samples from France, dated to c. 2110–2030 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to La Tene (Iron Age, Czech), England (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age) and England (Early Iron Age); the nearest living populations are French Brittany, Welsh and Belgian B.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1e and T2b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2110–2030 BCE
Country: France
Sampled near: Dolmen du Villard 44.48, 6.37
Samples: 2
Published in: OlaldeReichNature2018
Catalogue: France_EBA_BellBeaker
France_EBA_BellBeaker_oEEF outliers

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	La Tene (Iron Age, Czech)`Czech_IA_LaTene`	1.89
2	England (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)`England_MIA_LIA`	1.99
3	England (Early Iron Age)`England_EIA`	2.07
4	England (Middle Iron Age)`England_MIA`	2.08
5	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_BellBeaker`	2.27
6	East Yorkshire (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age, England)`England_EastYorkshire_MIA_LIA`	2.27
7	Switzerland (Early Bronze Age)`CHE_EBA`	2.34
8	Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_SouthernGermany_Singen_EBA`	2.34
9	Grand Est IA2 (Iron Age, France)`France_GrandEst_IA2`	2.35
10	England (Late Iron Age)`England_LIA`	2.36

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	French Brittany`French_Brittany`	2.07
2	Welsh`Welsh`	2.36
3	Belgian B`BelgianB`	2.51
4	Belgian`Belgian`	2.58
5	English Cornwall`English_Cornwall`	2.67
6	English`English`	2.67
7	French Nord`French_Nord`	2.68
8	Belgian A`BelgianA`	2.69
9	French Pas-de-Calais`French_Pas-de-Calais`	2.75
10	Belgian C`BelgianC`	2.77

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

H1e
T2b3

Individuals 3

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I3874`	`France_EBA_BellBeaker`	F	2201-2035 calBCE	Dolmen du Villard		T2b3
`I3875`	`France_EBA_BellBeaker`	M	2136-1946 calBCE	Dolmen du Villard	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	H1e
`I10345` outlier	`France_EBA_BellBeaker_oEEF`	F	2463-2208 calBCE	Dolmen du Villard		H1e1a