Ancient population · Bronze Age

Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)

Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA

Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA), with 2 samples from Greece, dated to c. 2300 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece), Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece) and Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily); the nearest living populations are Greek Dodecanese Rhodes, Greek Dodecanese and Greek Kos.

Date
c. 2300 BCE
Country
Greece
Sampled near
Potamia 36.94, 25.61
Samples
2
Catalogue
Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA.SG variant

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
1Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Lassithi3.13
2Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean3.18
3Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_13.34
4Krepost (Neolithic, Bulgaria)Bulgaria_Krepost_N3.40
5Archaic Sub Geometric (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Archaic_SubGeometric3.95
6Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age)Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA3.99
7Minoan Kephala Petras (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Kephala_Petras4.05
8Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_BA_Mycenaean4.16
9Aegean Mugla Degirmendere Ancient (Iron Age)Aegean_Mugla_Degirmendere_Anc4.17
10Kumtepe (Neolithic)Kumtepe_N4.21
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes6.19
2Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese6.30
3Greek KosGreek_Kos6.38
4Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria6.50
5Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani6.50
6Greek Cyclades AmorgosGreek_Cyclades_Amorgos6.54
7CypriotCypriot6.59
8Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania6.67
9Italian JewItalian_Jew6.72
10Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew6.74

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.

SampleSexDateSite
Kou01.SG2600-2000 BCEPotamia
Kou03.SGF2600-2000 BCEPotamia