Ancient population · Bronze Age
Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece)
Greece_Minoan_Lassithi
Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Greece_Minoan_Lassithi), with 5 samples from Greece, dated to c. 2200–2050 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Peloponnese (Neolithic, Greece), Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece) and Minoan Kephala Petras (Bronze Age, Greece); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Macedonia N.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H (2), H13a, H5 and U5a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2200–2050 BCE
- Country
- Greece
- Sampled near
- Lasithi 35.18, 25.44
- Samples
- 5
- Published in
- LazaridisStamatoyannopoulosNature2017
- Catalogue
Greece_Minoan_Lassithi
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 | Peloponnese (Neolithic, Greece)Greece_Peloponnese_N | 2.92 |
| 2 | Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA | 3.13 |
| 3 | Minoan Kephala Petras (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Kephala_Petras | 3.15 |
| 4 | Minoan Odigitria low res (Bronze Age)Minoan_Odigitria_low_res | 3.39 |
| 5 | Manika Helladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Manika_Helladic_EBA | 3.40 |
| 6 | Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic)Tepecik_Ciftlik_N | 3.62 |
| 7 | Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic, Turkey)Turkey_TepecikCiftlik_N | 3.66 |
| 8 | Middle Minoan (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_MiddleMinoan | 4.04 |
| 9 | Krepost (Neolithic, Bulgaria)Bulgaria_Krepost_N | 4.51 |
| 10 | Yabalkovo (Neolithic)Yabalkovo_N | 4.65 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bulgaria NBulgaria_N | 5.31 |
| 2 | Romania NRomania_N | 6.07 |
| 3 | Macedonia NMacedonia_N | 6.21 |
| 4 | Croatia NCroatia_N | 7.70 |
| 5 | Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes | 8.32 |
| 6 | Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese | 8.48 |
| 7 | Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria | 8.54 |
| 8 | Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani | 8.54 |
| 9 | Greek KosGreek_Kos | 8.55 |
| 10 | Italian JewItalian_Jew | 8.64 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I0070 | M | 2400-1700 BCE | Lasithi | J2a1a1a2b1b J-Y151557 | H13a1a |
I0071 | F | 2400-1700 BCE | Lasithi | U5a1 | |
I0073 | M | 2400-1700 BCE | Lasithi | J2a1a1a2b1b J-Y151557 | H |
I0074 | F | 2350-2050 BCE | Lasithi | H5 | |
I9005 | F | 2400-1700 BCE | Lasithi | H |