Ancient population · Neolithic
Benzigerode Heimburg (Late Neolithic, Germany)
Germany_BenzigerodeHeimburg_LN
Benzigerode Heimburg (Late Neolithic, Germany) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Germany_BenzigerodeHeimburg_LN), with 2 samples from Germany, dated to c. 2230–2170 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Scotland), England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age) and Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England); the nearest living populations are Orcadian, Icelandic and Irish.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include H1 and U5a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 2230–2170 BCE
- Country
- Germany
- Sampled near
- Benzingerode-Heimburg 51.82, 10.91
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- MathiesonReichNature2015
- Catalogue
Germany_BenzigerodeHeimburg_LN
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_BellBeaker | 2.51 |
| 2 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 2.60 |
| 3 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England)England_BellBeaker | 2.73 |
| 4 | Scotland (Late Iron Age)Scotland_LIA | 2.75 |
| 5 | Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_EBA_Unetice | 2.83 |
| 6 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_BellBeaker | 2.84 |
| 7 | Czech (Early Bronze Age)Czech_EBA | 2.86 |
| 8 | Scotland (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)Scotland_C_EBA | 2.88 |
| 9 | Unetice pre C (Bronze Age)Unetice_preC | 2.90 |
| 10 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 2.96 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.63 |
| 2 | IcelandicIcelandic | 3.64 |
| 3 | IrishIrish | 3.67 |
| 4 | ScottishScottish | 3.81 |
| 5 | NorwegianNorwegian | 3.82 |
| 6 | DanishDanish | 3.92 |
| 7 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 3.98 |
| 8 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 4.00 |
| 9 | EnglishEnglish | 4.20 |
| 10 | SwedishSwedish | 4.22 |
Haplogroups
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.