Ancient population · Bronze Age

Lech (Early Bronze Age, Germany)

Name: Lech (Early Bronze Age, Germany) (Germany_Lech_EBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Germany_Lech_EBA

Lech (Early Bronze Age, Germany) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Germany_Lech_EBA), with 16 samples from Germany, dated to c. 2050–1650 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to La Tene (Iron Age, Czech), Bell Beaker late (Bronze Age, Czechia) and Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany); the nearest living populations are Belgian B, French Nord and Belgian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (13); its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c (2), U4a (2), H and H3.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2050–1650 BCE
Country: Germany
Sampled near: Kleinaitingen-Gewerbegebiet-Nord 48.25, 10.86
Sites: Kleinaitingen-Gewerbegebiet-Nord (8)
Haunstetten-Postillionstraße (2)
Haunstetten-Unterer-Talweg-58-62
Haunstetten-Unterer-Talweg-85
Königsbrunn-Obere-Kreuzstraße
and 1 more
Samples: 16
Published in: MittnikKrauseScience2019
Catalogue: Germany_Lech_EBA

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	La Tene (Iron Age, Czech)`Czech_IA_LaTene`	1.35
2	Bell Beaker late (Bronze Age, Czechia)`Bell_Beaker_CZE_late`	1.41
3	Southern Germany Singen (Early Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_SouthernGermany_Singen_EBA`	1.55
4	Knoviz (Late Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_LBA_Knoviz`	1.56
5	Metz Gallo Roman (Antiquity, France)`France_Metz_GalloRoman`	1.59
6	Visigoth (Medieval, Spain)`Spain_Visigoth`	1.72
7	Alt Inden Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany)`Germany_AltInden_Saxon_EMedieval`	1.92
8	Hallstatt (Iron Age, Czech)`Czech_IA_Hallstatt`	1.98
9	High EEF (Middle Bronze Age, England)`England_MBA_highEEF`	2.00
10	Bell Beaker high EEF (Bronze Age, England)`England_BellBeaker_highEEF`	2.02

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Belgian B`BelgianB`	1.62
2	French Nord`French_Nord`	1.69
3	Belgian`Belgian`	1.71
4	French Pas-de-Calais`French_Pas-de-Calais`	1.80
5	Belgian C`BelgianC`	1.84
6	French Paris`French_Paris`	1.92
7	Swiss German`Swiss_German`	1.93
8	French Alsace`French_Alsace`	1.99
9	French Occitanie`French_Occitanie`	2.37
10	French Brittany`French_Brittany`	2.39

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

13 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2 7
R1b1a1b1a R-L51 2
R1b1a1 R-P297
R1b1a1b1a1a1c2b2a R-FT9791
R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y145978
R1b1a1b1a1a2a7 R-Y190010

mtDNA

14 individuals with a call

Individuals 16

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	mtDNA
`AITI_119`	M	1883-1695 calBCE	Kleinaitingen-Gewerbegebiet-Nord	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	U4a1a
`AITI_120`	M	1870-1623 calBCE	Kleinaitingen-Gewerbegebiet-Nord	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-Y31877	U4a1a
`AITI_2`	M	1885-1696 calBCE	Kleinaitingen-Gewerbegebiet-Nord	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	H6a
`AITI_40_noUDG`
`AITI_43`	M	1888-1700 calBCE	Kleinaitingen-Gewerbegebiet-Nord	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	X2b
`AITI_50_noUDG`
`AITI_70`	M	2116-1781 calBCE	Kleinaitingen-Gewerbegebiet-Nord	R1b1a1b1a1a1c2b2a R-FT9791	J1c2c2
`AITI_72`	M	1931-1742 calBCE	Kleinaitingen-Gewerbegebiet-Nord	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	J1c2c2
`AITI_78`	M	1891-1690 calBCE	Kleinaitingen-Gewerbegebiet-Nord	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	H3
`AITI_98`	M	1742-1544 calBCE	Kleinaitingen-Gewerbegebiet-Nord	R1b1a1b1a R-L51	H49
`OBKR_80`	M	2136-1955 calBCE	Königsbrunn-Obere-Kreuzstraße	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	K1a3
`POST_28`	M	2027-1898 calBCE	Haunstetten-Postillionstraße	R1b1a1b1a R-L51	K2a5
`POST_6`	M	2015-1830 calBCE	Haunstetten-Postillionstraße	R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y145978	U5a1a1
`UNTA58_153`	M	2008-1775 calBCE	Haunstetten-Unterer-Talweg-58-62	R1b1a1 R-P297	R1a1a
`UNTA85_1412`	M	2028-1891 calBCE	Haunstetten-Unterer-Talweg-85	R1b1a1b1a1a2a7 R-Y190010	H
`WEHR_1192SkB`	F	1926-1769 calBCE	Wehringen-Hochfeld		U5b2a2b