Ancient population · Neolithic

Greece 2 (Late Neolithic)

Greece_LN_2

Greece 2 (Late Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Greece_LN_2), with 2 samples from Greece, dated to c. 4400 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Romania (Early Neolithic), Starcevo 2 (Early Neolithic, Hungary) · Hungary_EN_Starcevo_2 and Lepenski Vir (Early–Middle Neolithic, Serbia); the nearest living populations are Macedonia N, Romania N and Bulgaria N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c and K1a.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 4400 BCE
Country
Greece
Sampled near
Kleitos 40.09, 21.93
Sites
Kleitos
Paliambela
Samples
2
Catalogue
Greece_LN_2.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
1Romania (Early Neolithic)Romania_EN3.57
2Starcevo 2 (Early Neolithic, Hungary) · Hungary_EN_Starcevo_2Hungary_EN_Starcevo_23.73
3Lepenski Vir (Early–Middle Neolithic, Serbia)Serbia_LepenskiVir_EMN3.75
4LBK (Middle Neolithic, Hungary)Hungary_MN_LBK3.83
5Nea Nikomedeia (Early Neolithic, Greece)Greece_NeaNikomedeia_EN3.83
6Turkey (Neolithic)Turkey_N3.90
7Koros (Early Neolithic, Hungary)Hungary_EN_Koros3.98
8Marmara Mentese (Neolithic)Marmara_Mentese_N3.99
9Greece (Neolithic)Greece_N4.03
10Marmara Barcin (Neolithic)Marmara_Barcin_N4.07
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Macedonia NMacedonia_N3.80
2Romania NRomania_N4.26
3Bulgaria NBulgaria_N4.46
4Croatia NCroatia_N6.11
5SardinianSardinian9.75
6Sardinia NSardinia_N10.81
7French CorsicaFrench_Corsica14.23
8Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria14.36
9Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani14.44
10Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania14.45

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man 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
Klei10_noUDG.SGM4446-4351 calBCEKleitosG2a2a1a2b G-Z42562K1a2
Pal7_noUDG.SGF4449-4348 calBCEPaliambelaJ1c1