Ancient population · Neolithic

Central (Neolithic, Italy)

Italy_Central_N

Central (Neolithic, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Central_N), with 3 samples from Italy, dated to c. 5320–5250 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ripabianca di Monterado (Neolithic), Lasinja (Chalcolithic, Croatia) and Sicily (Middle Neolithic, Italy); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Croatia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H2a, U5b and U8b.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 5320–5250 BCE
Country
Italy
Sampled near
Ripabianca di Monterado 43.72, 13.03
Samples
3
Catalogue
Italy_Central_N.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
#PopulationDistance
1Ripabianca di Monterado (Neolithic)Ripabianca_di_Monterado_N0.97
2Lasinja (Chalcolithic, Croatia)Croatia_C_Lasinja2.21
3Sicily (Middle Neolithic, Italy)Italy_Sicily_MN2.26
4AVK (Middle Neolithic, Hungary)Hungary_MN_AVK2.29
5Starcevo (Early Neolithic, Serbia)Serbia_EN_Starcevo2.46
6ALBK Szakalhat (Middle Neolithic, Hungary)Hungary_MN_ALBK_Szakalhat2.48
7Bodrogkeresztur (Chalcolithic, Romania)Romania_C_Bodrogkeresztur2.51
8Tiszapolgar Bodrogkerestur (Chalcolithic–Bronze Age, Serbia)Serbia_C_BA_Tiszapolgar_Bodrogkerestur2.52
9Czech (Middle Neolithic)Czech_MN2.59
10Lingolsheim (Middle Neolithic)MN_Lingolsheim2.59
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Bulgaria NBulgaria_N3.21
2Romania NRomania_N3.82
3Croatia NCroatia_N4.47
4SardinianSardinian4.49
5Macedonia NMacedonia_N5.07
6Sardinia NSardinia_N6.24
7French CorsicaFrench_Corsica9.72
8Italian LazioItalian_Lazio10.52
9Belmonte JewBelmonte_Jew10.53
10Italian UmbriaItalian_Umbria10.87

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

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
R16.SGF5309-5126 calBCERipabianca di MonteradoU5b2b3
R17.SGM5323-5216 calBCERipabianca di MonteradoJ2a2a1a J-PF5000U8b1b
R18.SGF5461-5221 calBCERipabianca di MonteradoH2a