Ancient population · Bronze Age

Iberia Menorca (Late Bronze Age)

Name: Iberia Menorca (Late Bronze Age) (Iberia_Menorca_LBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Iberia_Menorca_LBA

Iberia Menorca (Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Iberia_Menorca_LBA), with 1 sample from Balearic Islands, Spain, dated to c. 860 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Menorca new (Late Bronze Age, Spain), Spain (Iron Age) and Iberia Formentera (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Basque Navarre North, Basque Spanish and Basque Gipuzkoa.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is U5b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 860 BCE
Country: Spain
Origin: Balearic Islands, Spain
Sampled near: Naveta des Tudons 40.00, 3.89
Samples: 1
Published in: PattersonReichNature2021
Catalogue: Iberia_Menorca_LBA

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	Menorca new (Late Bronze Age, Spain)`Spain_Menorca_LBA_new`	1.00
2	Spain (Iron Age)`Spain_IA`	1.84
3	Iberia Formentera (Middle Bronze Age)`Iberia_Formentera_MBA`	2.34
4	Formentera (Middle Bronze Age, Spain) · Spain_MBA_Formentera`Spain_MBA_Formentera`	2.34
5	Aritgues (Late Bronze Age, Spain)`Spain_Aritgues_LBA`	2.42
6	Spain (Middle Bronze Age)`Spain_MBA`	2.43
7	Spain (Early Bronze Age)`Spain_EBA`	2.58
8	Spain (Late Bronze Age)`Spain_LBA`	2.60
9	Spain (Bronze Age)`Spain_BA`	2.65
10	Spain (Late Iron Age)`Spain_LIA`	2.90

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Basque Navarre North`Basque_Navarre_North`	2.51
2	Basque Spanish`Basque_Spanish`	2.53
3	Basque Gipuzkoa`Basque_Gipuzkoa`	2.56
4	Basque Lower Navarre`Basque_Lower_Navarre`	2.69
5	Basque Navarre Center`Basque_Navarre_Center`	2.70
6	Basque Soule`Basque_Soule`	2.71
7	Basque Gipuzkoa Southwest`Basque_Gipuzkoa_Southwest`	2.84
8	Basque Baztan`Basque_Baztan`	2.86
9	French Bearn`French_Bearn`	2.88
10	Basque Roncal`Basque_Roncal`	2.90

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

U5b1

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	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I3315`	M	904-814 calBCE	Naveta des Tudons	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	U5b1