Ancient population · Bronze Age

Occitanie (Early Bronze Age, France)

France_Occitanie_EBA

Occitanie (Early Bronze Age, France) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (France_Occitanie_EBA), with 2 samples from France, dated to c. 2220–1930 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to France (Early Bronze Age), High EEF (Early Iron Age, England) and La Clape Bell Beaker Possible (Late Neolithic–Early–Middle Bronze Age, France); the nearest living populations are Basque Gipuzkoa Southwest, French Chalosse and French South.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H2a and V9.

Date
c. 2220–1930 BCE
Country
France
Sampled near
Dolmen de Saint-Eugène 43.21, 2.77
Sites
Dolmen de Saint-Eugène
Rec de Ligno
Samples
2
Catalogue
France_Occitanie_EBA.SG variant

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
1France (Early Bronze Age)France_EBA2.61
2High EEF (Early Iron Age, England)England_EIA_highEEF3.10
3La Clape Bell Beaker Possible (Late Neolithic–Early–Middle Bronze Age, France)France_LaClape_LN_EMBA_BellBeakerPossible3.57
4Occitanie IA2 (Iron Age, France)France_Occitanie_IA23.57
5High EEF (Middle Iron Age, England)England_MIA_highEEF3.63
6Aritgues (Late Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Aritgues_LBA3.71
7France (Middle Bronze Age)France_MBA3.78
8Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_SouthernGermany_Singen_EBA3.78
9South East IA2 (Iron Age, France)France_SouthEast_IA23.85
10Switzerland (Early Bronze Age)CHE_EBA3.89
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Basque Gipuzkoa SouthwestBasque_Gipuzkoa_Southwest3.59
2French ChalosseFrench_Chalosse3.92
3French SouthFrench_South3.96
4Spanish SoriaSpanish_Soria3.97
5Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North3.99
6Basque BiscayBasque_Biscay4.02
7Basque ArabaBasque_Araba4.02
8Basque GipuzkoaBasque_Gipuzkoa4.05
9Basque RoncalBasque_Roncal4.07
10Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish4.14

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
EUG11.SGM2028-1782 calBCEDolmen de Saint-EugèneR1b1a1b R-M269V9
PIR3116B.SGM2340-2064 calBCERec de LignoR1b1a1 R-P297H2a1e