Ancient population · Bronze Age

France (Early Bronze Age)

Name: France (Early Bronze Age) (France_EBA)
Creator: Genoplot

France_EBA

France (Early Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (France_EBA), with 4 samples from France, dated to c. 1810–1580 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to High EEF (Early Iron Age, England), Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany) and La Clape Bell Beaker Possible (Late Neolithic–Early–Middle Bronze Age, France); the nearest living populations are French Occitanie, French Auvergne and Spanish Soria.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (2) and G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include T1a (2), H1e and J1c.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1810–1580 BCE
Country: France
Sampled near: Dolmen du Villard 45.24, 3.99
Sites: Dolmen du Villard (3)
Port Blanc
Samples: 4
Published in: PattersonReichNature2021
Catalogue: France_EBA

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	High EEF (Early Iron Age, England)`England_EIA_highEEF`	2.06
2	Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_SouthernGermany_Singen_EBA`	2.26
3	La Clape Bell Beaker Possible (Late Neolithic–Early–Middle Bronze Age, France)`France_LaClape_LN_EMBA_BellBeakerPossible`	2.40
4	High EEF (Middle Iron Age, England)`England_MIA_highEEF`	2.40
5	Grand Est IA1 (Iron Age, France)`France_GrandEst_IA1`	2.42
6	Occitanie IA2 (Iron Age, France)`France_Occitanie_IA2`	2.46
7	Switzerland (Early Bronze Age)`CHE_EBA`	2.49
8	High EEF (Middle Bronze Age, England)`England_MBA_highEEF`	2.50
9	Occitanie (Early Bronze Age, France)`France_Occitanie_EBA`	2.61
10	South East IA2 (Iron Age, France)`France_SouthEast_IA2`	2.62

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	French Occitanie`French_Occitanie`	2.56
2	French Auvergne`French_Auvergne`	2.74
3	Spanish Soria`Spanish_Soria`	2.80
4	French Chalosse`French_Chalosse`	2.90
5	French South`French_South`	2.97
6	Spanish Aragon North`Spanish_Aragon_North`	3.04
7	Spanish Biscay`Spanish_Biscay`	3.12
8	Basque Araba`Basque_Araba`	3.12
9	French Paris`French_Paris`	3.13
10	French Pas-de-Calais`French_Pas-de-Calais`	3.15

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 6

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	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I10343`	F	1886-1644 calBCE	Dolmen du Villard		J1c5
`I10347`	M	1684-1503 calBCE	Dolmen du Villard	G2a2b2a1a1b G-L497	T1a
`I10348`	M	1874-1544 calBCE	Dolmen du Villard	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	H1e
`I15033`	M	1891-1743 calBCE	Port Blanc	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	T1a1
`I10342` outlier	M	1882-1687 calBCE	Dolmen du Villard	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	W6
`I15028` outlier	F	2437-2147 calBCE	Port Blanc		J1c2e