Ancient population · Bronze Age

Halberstadt (Late Bronze Age, Germany)

Name: Halberstadt (Late Bronze Age, Germany) (Germany_LBA_Halberstadt)
Creator: Genoplot

Germany_LBA_Halberstadt

Halberstadt (Late Bronze Age, Germany) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Germany_LBA_Halberstadt), with 1 sample from Germany, dated to c. 1070 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, France), Scotland (Middle Bronze Age) and Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Danish and Dutch.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1070 BCE
Country: Germany
Sampled near: Halberstadt-Sonntagsfeld 51.90, 11.05
Samples: 1
Published in: AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue: Germany_LBA_Halberstadt

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, France)`France_BellBeaker`	1.92
2	Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)`Scotland_MBA`	2.05
3	Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)`Scotland_Orkney_MBA`	2.09
4	Viking (Medieval, Ireland)`Ireland_Viking`	2.14
5	Switzerland 2 (Early Bronze Age)`Switzerland_EBA_2`	2.16
6	Unetice (Chalcolithic)`Unetice_C`	2.19
7	Knoviz Hallstatt (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age, Czech)`Czech_LBA_IA_Knoviz_Hallstatt`	2.22
8	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_BellBeaker`	2.23
9	Alberstedt (Late Neolithic, Germany)`Germany_LN_Alberstedt`	2.24
10	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Poland)`Poland_BellBeaker`	2.27

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Norwegian`Norwegian`	2.84
2	Danish`Danish`	2.88
3	Dutch`Dutch`	3.00
4	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	3.18
5	Welsh`Welsh`	3.19
6	Irish`Irish`	3.20
7	Swedish`Swedish`	3.26
8	German Hamburg`German_Hamburg`	3.27
9	Scottish`Scottish`	3.30
10	Icelandic`Icelandic`	3.34

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1a1a1 R-Z645

Individuals 1

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA
`I0099`	M	1202-940 calBCE	Halberstadt-Sonntagsfeld	R1a1a1 R-Z645