Ancient population · Bronze Age

Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Hungary) · Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker

Name: Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Hungary) · Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker (Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker)
Creator: Genoplot

Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker

Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Hungary) · Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker), with 5 samples from Hungary, dated to c. 2410–2350 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to La Tene (Iron Age, Hungary) · Hungary_IA_LaTene, Prescythian Mezocsat (Early Iron Age, Hungary) and Vekerzug (Iron Age, Slovakia); the nearest living populations are French Auvergne, Swiss French and French Occitanie.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (2) and G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1aj, HV4a, I3a and J1c.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2410–2350 BCE
Country: Hungary
Sampled near: Békásmegyer 47.56, 19.04
Sites: Békásmegyer (2)
Budakalász-Csajerszke-M0-12 (2)
Szigetszentmiklós-Felső-Ürge-hegyi-dűlő
Samples: 5
Published in: AkbariReichNature2026
OlaldeReichNature2018
Catalogue: Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker

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
#	Population	Distance
1	La Tene (Iron Age, Hungary) · Hungary_IA_LaTene`Hungary_IA_LaTene`	1.52
2	Prescythian Mezocsat (Early Iron Age, Hungary)`Hungary_EIA_Prescythian_Mezocsat`	1.65
3	Vekerzug (Iron Age, Slovakia)`Slovakia_IA_Vekerzug`	1.84
4	Croatia (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Croatia_MLBA`	1.88
5	Visigoth (Medieval, Spain)`Spain_Visigoth`	1.92
6	Metz Gallo Roman (Antiquity, France)`France_Metz_GalloRoman`	2.11
7	Hallstatt (Iron Age, Czech)`Czech_IA_Hallstatt`	2.11
8	Hungary (Late Bronze Age) · Hungary_LBA`Hungary_LBA`	2.12
9	Slovenia (Early Iron Age)`Slovenia_EIA`	2.14
10	La Tene (Late Iron Age, Slovakia)`Slovakia_LIA_LaTene`	2.14

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	French Auvergne`French_Auvergne`	1.80
2	Swiss French`Swiss_French`	1.96
3	French Occitanie`French_Occitanie`	2.05
4	Swiss German`Swiss_German`	2.15
5	French Alsace`French_Alsace`	2.27
6	French Provence`French_Provence`	2.39
7	French Nord`French_Nord`	2.41
8	Belgian C`BelgianC`	2.57
9	Italian Aosta Valley`Italian_Aosta_Valley`	2.60
10	Spanish Penedes`Spanish_Penedes`	2.66

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

G2a2a1a2a2a1 G-Y140827
R1b1a1b R-M269
R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 11

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. 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
`I2365`	M	2459-2209 calBCE	Békásmegyer	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	V3
`I3528`	M	2562-2299 calBCE	Budakalász-Csajerszke-M0-12	G2a2a1a2a2a1 G-Y140827	HV4a1
`I3529`	F	2500-2200 BCE	Budakalász-Csajerszke-M0-12		I3a
`I4131`	F	2464-2209 calBCE	Békásmegyer		H1aj
`I4178`	M	2500-2200 BCE	Szigetszentmiklós-Felső-Ürge-hegyi-dűlő	R1b1a1b R-M269	J1c1b1a
`I2364` outlier	M	2403-2153 calBCE	Békásmegyer	F F	U5a2b1
`I2741` outlier	M	2456-2150 calBCE	Szigetszentmiklós-Felső-Ürge-hegyi-dűlő	I2a1a1a1 I-Y11222	H1
`I2786` outlier	M	2457-2204 calBCE	Szigetszentmiklós-Felső-Ürge-hegyi-dűlő	I2a1b1 I-M223	I1
`I2787` outlier	M	2456-2200 calBCE	Szigetszentmiklós-Felső-Ürge-hegyi-dűlő	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	T2b
`I7044` outlier	M	2900-1800 BCE	Szigetszentmiklós-Üdülősor	R1b1a1b R-M269	U5b1d1b
`I7045` outlier	F	2440-2201 calBCE	Szigetszentmiklós-Üdülősor		T2c1d