Ancient population · Bronze Age
Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Germany)
Germany_EBA_Unetice
Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Germany) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Germany_EBA_Unetice), with 6 samples from Germany, dated to c. 2140–1860 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech), Unetice (Chalcolithic) and Unetice (Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H4a, I3a, U5a and U5b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2140–1860 BCE
- Country
- Germany
- Sampled near
- Esperstedt 51.52, 11.51
- Sites
- Esperstedt (3)
Eulau
Halberstadt-Sonntagsfeld
Quedlinburg-8 - Samples
- 6
- Published in
- AkbariReichNature2026
MathiesonReichNature2015 - Catalogue
Germany_EBA_Unetice
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 | Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_EBA_Unetice | 1.14 |
| 2 | Unetice (Chalcolithic)Unetice_C | 1.48 |
| 3 | Unetice (Early Bronze Age)Unetice_EBA | 1.60 |
| 4 | Czech (Early Bronze Age)Czech_EBA | 1.67 |
| 5 | Unetice pre C (Bronze Age)Unetice_preC | 1.71 |
| 6 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 1.72 |
| 7 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 1.85 |
| 8 | Switzerland 2 (Early Bronze Age)Switzerland_EBA_2 | 2.01 |
| 9 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_BellBeaker | 2.02 |
| 10 | Malmo VA (Medieval)Malmo_VA | 2.13 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SwedishSwedish | 2.74 |
| 2 | NorwegianNorwegian | 2.90 |
| 3 | DanishDanish | 3.01 |
| 4 | IcelandicIcelandic | 3.13 |
| 5 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 3.22 |
| 6 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.32 |
| 7 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 3.41 |
| 8 | ScottishScottish | 3.50 |
| 9 | DutchDutch | 3.50 |
| 10 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.53 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 6
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.