Ancient population · Bronze Age

Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Germany)

Name: Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Germany) (Germany_BellBeaker)
Creator: Genoplot

Germany_BellBeaker

Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Germany) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Germany_BellBeaker), with 17 samples from Germany, dated to c. 2350–2200 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Czech), England (Late Iron Age) and Switzerland 2 (Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Afrikaner, Dutch and French Brittany.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (4); its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c (2), U5b (2), H13a and H1e.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2350–2200 BCE
Country: Germany
Sampled near: Irlbach-LKR 49.66, 12.26
Sites: Irlbach-LKR (5)
Stkr -Straubing (3)
Benzingerode-Heimburg (2)
DGF-Lan (2)
Osterhofen-Altenmarkt (2)
and 2 more
Samples: 17
Published in: MathiesonReichNature2015
OlaldeReichNature2018
Catalogue: Germany_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	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_BellBeaker`	0.88
2	England (Late Iron Age)`England_LIA`	1.42
3	Switzerland 2 (Early Bronze Age)`Switzerland_EBA_2`	1.47
4	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Poland)`Poland_BellBeaker`	1.52
5	Alberstedt (Late Neolithic, Germany)`Germany_LN_Alberstedt`	1.56
6	England (Late Bronze Age)`England_LBA`	1.58
7	England (Middle Iron Age)`England_MIA`	1.62
8	East Yorkshire (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age, England)`England_EastYorkshire_MIA_LIA`	1.66
9	Lech Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_Lech_BellBeaker`	1.69
10	Jutland VA (Medieval)`Jutland_VA`	1.72

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Afrikaner`Afrikaner`	2.14
2	Dutch`Dutch`	2.14
3	French Brittany`French_Brittany`	2.16
4	Welsh`Welsh`	2.19
5	German`German`	2.30
6	Orcadian`Orcadian`	2.39
7	English`English`	2.41
8	Scottish`Scottish`	2.48
9	Belgian B`BelgianB`	2.66
10	German Erlangen`German_Erlangen`	2.67

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2 3
R1b1a1b R-M269

mtDNA

17 individuals with a call

Individuals 29

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
`I0111`	F	2474-2201 calBCE	Rothenschirmbach		H3ao
`I0112`	F	2455-2141 calBCE	Quedlinburg-12		H13a1a2
`I0113`	F	2396-2034 calBCE	Quedlinburg-12		J1c5
`I1546`	F	2500-2050 BCE	Benzingerode-Heimburg		U5a1b1
`I1549`	F	2500-2050 BCE	Benzingerode-Heimburg		W1c1
`I3588`	M	2300-2150 BCE	Stkr -Straubing	R1b1a1b R-M269	H1e1a
`I3589`	M	2300-2150 BCE	Stkr -Straubing	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	U4d1
`I3600`	F	2300-2150 BCE	Stkr -Straubing		U5b
`I5023`	F	2500-2000 BCE	Osterhofen-Altenmarkt		U2e1a1
`I5523`	F	2800-1800 BCE	DGF-Lan		K1b1a1
`I5525`	F	2800-1800 BCE	DGF-Lan		U4b1b2
`I5529`	M	2800-1800 BCE	Osterhofen-Altenmarkt	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	HV15
`I5833`	M	2500-2000 BCE	Irlbach-LKR	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	J1c
`I5834`	F	2500-2000 BCE	Irlbach-LKR		W5
`I6590`	F	2500-2000 BCE	Irlbach-LKR		X2c1
`I6591`	F	2500-2000 BCE	Irlbach-LKR		U5b2c
`I6624`	F	2500-2000 BCE	Irlbach-LKR		T1a1
`I0060` outlier	F	2404-2146 calBCE	Rothenschirmbach		K1a2c
`I0108` outlier	F	2575-2297 calBCE	Rothenschirmbach		H5a3
`I0806` outlier	M	2433-2147 calBCE	Quedlinburg-7	R1b1a1b1a1 R-L52	H1
`I3590` outlier	F	2341-2141 calBCE	Stkr -Straubing		H1
`I3594` outlier	F	2300-2150 BCE	Stkr -Straubing		T2
`I3601` outlier	F	2300-2150 BCE	Stkr -Straubing		H10e
`I4143` outlier
`I5524` outlier	F	2800-1800 BCE	DGF-Lan		H72
`I5531` outlier	F	2800-1800 BCE	Weichering		T2b
`I5658` outlier	F	2500-2000 BCE	Irlbach-LKR		T2b
`I5659` outlier	M	2500-2000 BCE	Irlbach-LKR	R1b R-L754	K1a4b
`I5836` outlier	F	2800-1800 BCE	Worms-Herrnsheim		H1b1