Ancient population · Bronze Age

Ireland (Early Bronze Age)

Name: Ireland (Early Bronze Age) (Ireland_EBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Ireland_EBA

Ireland (Early Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ireland_EBA), with 1 sample from Ireland, dated to c. 1630 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ireland (Bronze Age), Wales (Late Bronze Age) and Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Irish and Icelandic.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is J2b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1630 BCE
Country: Ireland
Sampled near: Rathlin Island 55.29, -6.19
Samples: 1
Published in: CassidyBradleyPNAS2016
Catalogue: Ireland_EBA.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
#	Population	Distance
1	Ireland (Bronze Age)`IRL_BA`	2.46
2	Wales (Late Bronze Age)`Wales_LBA`	2.46
3	Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval)`Viking_Age_Pre_Christian`	2.54
4	Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age–Late Bronze Age)`Netherlands_MBA_LBA`	2.67
5	Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)`Scotland_MBA`	2.83
6	Netherlands (Early Bronze Age)`Netherlands_EBA`	2.89
7	England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)`England_C_EBA`	2.91
8	Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)`Netherlands_MBA`	2.91
9	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England)`England_BellBeaker`	2.93
10	Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)`Scotland_Orkney_MBA`	2.99

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Norwegian`Norwegian`	3.77
2	Irish`Irish`	3.86
3	Icelandic`Icelandic`	3.93
4	Czech Modern`Czech_Modern`	4.05
5	Danish`Danish`	4.13
6	Scottish`Scottish`	4.16
7	Orcadian`Orcadian`	4.30
8	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	4.30
9	Dutch`Dutch`	4.36
10	Welsh`Welsh`	4.39

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

J2b1a

Individuals 3

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
`rath3_noUDG.SG`	M	1736-1539 calBCE	Rathlin Island	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21	J2b1a
`rath1_noUDG.SG` outlier	M	2031-1830 calBCE	Rathlin Island	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a5 R-Z30233	U5a1b1e
`rath2_noUDG.SG` outlier	M	2026-1700 calBCE	Rathlin Island	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a5c R-S5488	U5b2a2