Ancient population · Bronze Age

Minoan Kephala Petras (Bronze Age, Greece)

Greece_Minoan_Kephala_Petras

Minoan Kephala Petras (Bronze Age, Greece) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Greece_Minoan_Kephala_Petras), with 1 sample from Greece, dated to c. 2300 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic), Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece) and Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Macedonia N.

Date
c. 2300 BCE
Country
Greece
Sampled near
Kephala Petras Siteias 35.20, 26.11
Samples
1
Catalogue
Greece_Minoan_Kephala_Petras.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
1Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic)Tepecik_Ciftlik_N3.00
2Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Lassithi3.15
3Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic, Turkey)Turkey_TepecikCiftlik_N3.34
4Manika Helladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Manika_Helladic_EBA3.36
5Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA4.05
6Peloponnese (Neolithic, Greece)Greece_Peloponnese_N4.18
7Kumtepe (Neolithic)Kumtepe_N4.34
8Minoan Odigitria low res (Bronze Age)Minoan_Odigitria_low_res4.67
9Yabalkovo (Neolithic)Yabalkovo_N4.80
10Tell Kurdu (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_TellKurdu_EC4.98
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Bulgaria NBulgaria_N5.69
2Romania NRomania_N6.09
3Macedonia NMacedonia_N6.79
4Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes8.13
5Italian JewItalian_Jew8.24
6Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani8.28
7Bulgarian JewBulgarian_Jew8.29
8Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese8.29
9Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew8.34
10Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria8.40

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.

SampleDateSite
Pta08.SG2600-2000 BCEKephala Petras Siteias