Ancient population · Bronze Age

Gibraltar (Early Bronze Age)

Gibraltar_EBA

Gibraltar (Early Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Gibraltar_EBA), with 2 samples, dated to c. 1650 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Almoloya Argar Early (Bronze Age, Spain), Almoloya Argar (Bronze Age, Spain) and Almoloya Argar Late (Bronze Age, Spain); the nearest living populations are Basque Soule, Basque Navarre North and Basque Spanish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a and T2e.

Date
c. 1650 BCE
Sampled near
Bray Cave 36.13, -5.34
Samples
2
Catalogue
Gibraltar_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
#PopulationDistance
1Almoloya Argar Early (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Almoloya_Argar_Early2.04
2Almoloya Argar (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Almoloya_Argar2.10
3Almoloya Argar Late (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Almoloya_Argar_Late2.16
4Bastida Argar (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Bastida_Argar2.16
5Iberia Argar Almoloya Early (Bronze Age)Iberia_Argar_Almoloya_Early2.25
6SE Cabezo Redondo (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_SE_CabezoRedondo_BA2.25
7Portugal (Middle Bronze Age)Portugal_MBA2.27
8SE Iberia Valencian (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_SE_Iberia_BA_Valencian2.49
9Spain (Bronze Age)Spain_BA2.61
10SE Iberia Argar (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_SE_Iberia_BA_Argar2.63
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Basque SouleBasque_Soule4.30
2Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North4.47
3Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish4.56
4Basque Navarre CenterBasque_Navarre_Center4.67
5Basque Lower NavarreBasque_Lower_Navarre4.68
6Spanish La RiojaSpanish_La_Rioja4.75
7Basque BaztanBasque_Baztan4.81
8Basque RoncalBasque_Roncal4.82
9Basque FrenchBasque_French4.85
10Basque GipuzkoaBasque_Gipuzkoa4.89

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I10939M1900-1400 BCEBray CaveR1b1a1b1a1a1c2b R-BY18061K1a3a
I10941M1900-1400 BCEBray CaveR1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y153322T2e1