Ancient population · Neolithic

Starcevo 2 (Early Neolithic, Hungary) · Hungary_EN_Starcevo_2

Hungary_EN_Starcevo_2

Starcevo 2 (Early Neolithic, Hungary) · Hungary_EN_Starcevo_2 is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Hungary_EN_Starcevo_2), with 1 sample from Hungary, dated to c. 5650 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Nea Nikomedeia (Early Neolithic, Greece), Turkey (Neolithic) and Koros (Early Neolithic, Hungary); the nearest living populations are Macedonia N, Romania N and Bulgaria N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is W5.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 5650 BCE
Country
Hungary
Sampled near
Lánycsók-Gata-Csatola 45.99, 18.58
Samples
1
Published in
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue
Hungary_EN_Starcevo_2

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
1Nea Nikomedeia (Early Neolithic, Greece)Greece_NeaNikomedeia_EN2.75
2Turkey (Neolithic)Turkey_N2.87
3Koros (Early Neolithic, Hungary)Hungary_EN_Koros2.89
4Romania (Early Neolithic)Romania_EN2.95
5Serbia (Early Neolithic)Serbia_EN3.00
6LBK (Middle Neolithic, Hungary)Hungary_MN_LBK3.01
7Lepenski Vir (Early–Middle Neolithic, Serbia)Serbia_LepenskiVir_EMN3.02
8Cardial (Neolithic, Croatia)Croatia_N_Cardial3.03
9Serbia (Neolithic)SRB_N3.04
10Sopot (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)Croatia_MN_Sopot3.12
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Macedonia NMacedonia_N2.84
2Romania NRomania_N2.94
3Bulgaria NBulgaria_N3.16
4Croatia NCroatia_N5.68
5SardinianSardinian9.04
6Sardinia NSardinia_N10.06
7French CorsicaFrench_Corsica13.22
8Italian JewItalian_Jew13.35
9Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria13.37
10Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani13.38

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I1880M5800-5500 BCELánycsók-Gata-CsatolaG2a2b2b1a1 G-F872W5