Ancient population · Bronze Age
Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)
Greece_Delphi_BA_Mycenaean
Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Greece_Delphi_BA_Mycenaean), with 4 samples from Greece, dated to c. 1310–1220 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily), Bulgaria (Early Iron Age) and Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily); the nearest living populations are Italian Lazio, Italian Apulia and Italian Campania.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups G, G2a and J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a, K2b, T2c and W1.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1310–1220 BCE
- Country
- Greece
- Sampled near
- Kastrouli 38.40, 22.57
- Samples
- 4
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Greece_Delphi_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 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE | 1.98 |
| 2 | Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)Bulgaria_EIA | 2.13 |
| 3 | Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_1 | 2.17 |
| 4 | Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean | 2.40 |
| 5 | Bulgaria (Iron Age)Bulgaria_IA | 2.88 |
| 6 | Delphi (Iron Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_IA | 3.44 |
| 7 | Transtisza Maros Early Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_Transtisza_Maros_EAvar | 3.58 |
| 8 | Sardinia 1 (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_IA_1 | 3.65 |
| 9 | Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age)Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA | 3.67 |
| 10 | Sicily (Iron Age)Sicily_IA | 3.82 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian LazioItalian_Lazio | 5.15 |
| 2 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 5.17 |
| 3 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 5.22 |
| 4 | Greek ApuliaGreek_Apulia | 5.29 |
| 5 | Italian BasilicataItalian_Basilicata | 5.29 |
| 6 | Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani | 5.34 |
| 7 | Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria | 5.37 |
| 8 | Italian AbruzzoItalian_Abruzzo | 5.40 |
| 9 | Sicilian EastSicilian_East | 5.42 |
| 10 | Italian UmbriaItalian_Umbria | 5.45 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I13577 | M | 1350-1150 BCE | Kastrouli | G2a2b2b1a1a2 G-Z7016 | T2c1d1 |
I13578 | F | 1397-1222 calBCE | Kastrouli | K1a2 | |
I13579 | M | 1382-1134 calBCE | Kastrouli | J2a1a2b2a2b2 J-Y14434 | W1 |
I13580 | M | 1371-1123 calBCE | Kastrouli | G G-Y238 | K2b |