Ancient population · Bronze Age
Middle Minoan (Bronze Age, Greece)
Greece_MiddleMinoan
Middle Minoan (Bronze Age, Greece) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Greece_MiddleMinoan), with 1 sample from Greece, dated to c. 1820 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic, Turkey), Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece) and Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Macedonia N and Romania N.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is H.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1820 BCE
- Country
- Greece
- Sampled near
- Karaviadaina 35.09, 26.25
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Greece_MiddleMinoan
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 | Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic, Turkey)Turkey_TepecikCiftlik_N | 4.00 |
| 2 | Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Lassithi | 4.04 |
| 3 | Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic)Tepecik_Ciftlik_N | 4.25 |
| 4 | Minoan Odigitria low res (Bronze Age)Minoan_Odigitria_low_res | 4.40 |
| 5 | Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA | 4.45 |
| 6 | Peloponnese (Neolithic, Greece)Greece_Peloponnese_N | 4.99 |
| 7 | Minoan Kephala Petras (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Kephala_Petras | 5.15 |
| 8 | Krepost (Neolithic, Bulgaria)Bulgaria_Krepost_N | 5.31 |
| 9 | Manika Helladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Manika_Helladic_EBA | 5.39 |
| 10 | Buyukkaya (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Buyukkaya_EC | 5.51 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bulgaria NBulgaria_N | 6.78 |
| 2 | Macedonia NMacedonia_N | 7.33 |
| 3 | Romania NRomania_N | 7.37 |
| 4 | CypriotCypriot | 8.35 |
| 5 | Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes | 8.51 |
| 6 | Croatia NCroatia_N | 8.55 |
| 7 | Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew | 8.57 |
| 8 | Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese | 8.65 |
| 9 | Greek KosGreek_Kos | 8.67 |
| 10 | Italian JewItalian_Jew | 8.70 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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 | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I14916 | F | 1894-1744 calBCE | Karaviadaina | H |