Ancient population · Bronze Age

Ireland (Bronze Age)

Name: Ireland (Bronze Age) (IRL_BA)
Creator: Genoplot

IRL_BA

Ireland (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (IRL_BA), with 2 samples from Antrim, Ireland, dated to about 1635 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age), Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age) and Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Icelandic and Danish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include J2b and U5a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: about 1635 BCE
Country: Ireland
Origin: Antrim, Ireland
Sampled near: Rathlin Island 55.29, -6.19
Samples: 2
Published in: CassidyBradleyPNAS2016
Catalogue: IRL_BA

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	England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)`England_C_EBA`	1.44
2	Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)`Netherlands_MBA`	1.50
3	Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval)`Viking_Age_Pre_Christian`	1.63
4	England (Middle Bronze Age)`England_MBA`	1.78
5	Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)`Scotland_MBA`	1.82
6	Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)`Scotland_MIA_LIA`	1.85
7	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England)`England_BellBeaker`	1.87
8	Scotland (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)`Scotland_C_EBA`	1.95
9	Pre Christian (Iceland)`Iceland_Pre_Christian`	1.97
10	Viking (Medieval, Iceland)`Iceland_Viking`	1.98

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Norwegian`Norwegian`	2.31
2	Icelandic`Icelandic`	2.52
3	Danish`Danish`	2.66
4	Irish`Irish`	2.78
5	Orcadian`Orcadian`	2.90
6	Scottish`Scottish`	2.92
7	Swedish`Swedish`	2.95
8	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	3.01
9	Dutch`Dutch`	3.09
10	Czech Modern`Czech_Modern`	3.12

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21
R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a5 R-Z30233

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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
`rath1`	M	2031-1830 calBCE	Rathlin Island	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a5 R-Z30233	U5a1b1e
`rath3`	M	1736-1539 calBCE	Rathlin Island	R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-L21	J2b1a