Ancient population · Bronze Age
Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)
Greece_BA_Mycenaean
Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Greece_BA_Mycenaean), with 6 samples from Greece, dated to c. 1470–1120 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily), Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece) and Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily); the nearest living populations are Greek Deep Mani, Italian Calabria and Italian Campania.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2a and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include HV0a, J1c, K1c and N1a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1470–1120 BCE
- Country
- Greece
- Sampled near
- Palace of Nestor 37.42, 22.66
- Sites
- Palace of Nestor (3)
Apatheia
Ayia Kyriaki
Kolikrepi-Spata - Samples
- 6
- Catalogue
Greece_BA_Mycenaean
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 | Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_1 | 1.34 |
| 2 | Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_BA_Mycenaean | 2.40 |
| 3 | Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE | 2.70 |
| 4 | Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)Bulgaria_EIA | 2.76 |
| 5 | Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age)Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA | 3.01 |
| 6 | Bulgaria (Iron Age)Bulgaria_IA | 3.15 |
| 7 | Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA | 3.18 |
| 8 | Delphi (Iron Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_IA | 3.34 |
| 9 | Bulgaria (Late Iron Age)Bulgaria_LIA | 3.43 |
| 10 | Transtisza Maros Early Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_Transtisza_Maros_EAvar | 3.43 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani | 4.38 |
| 2 | Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria | 4.42 |
| 3 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 4.44 |
| 4 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 4.53 |
| 5 | Greek ApuliaGreek_Apulia | 4.53 |
| 6 | Italian BasilicataItalian_Basilicata | 4.62 |
| 7 | Greek Cyclades TinosGreek_Cyclades_Tinos | 4.73 |
| 8 | Sicilian EastSicilian_East | 4.75 |
| 9 | Greek Cyclades MilosGreek_Cyclades_Milos | 4.80 |
| 10 | Greek KosGreek_Kos | 4.89 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 10
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I13514 | F | 1400-1050 BCE | Palace of Nestor | K1c1 | |
I13518 | M | 1200-1050 BCE | Palace of Nestor | R1b1a1b R-PF7563 | N1a1a1a3 |
I15571 | F | 1505-1429 calBCE | Kolikrepi-Spata | HV0a | |
I19366 | F | 1400-1250 BCE | Palace of Nestor | J1c | |
I9006 | F | 1413-1261 calBCE | Ayia Kyriaki | X2d | |
I9041 | M | 1400-1200 BCE | Apatheia | J2a1a J-L26 | X2 |
I15582 outlier | F | 1610-1448 calBCE | Kolikrepi-Spata | T2c1 | |
I16709 outlier | M | 1497-1316 calBCE | Kolikrepi-Spata | J2a1a2b2a2b2 J-Y14434 | H5 |
I19368 outlier | F | 1100-950 BCE | Palace of Nestor | U8b1a | |
I9010 outlier | F | 1400-1200 BCE | Apatheia | X2 |