Ancient population · Chalcolithic

La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic, Italy)

Name: La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic, Italy) (Italy_LaSassa_CA)
Creator: Genoplot

Italy_LaSassa_CA

La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_LaSassa_CA), with 1 sample from Italy, dated to c. 2670 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic), Gattolino CA (Chalcolithic) and Ripabianca di Monterado (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Sardinian, Croatia N and Sardinia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is H1bv.

Period: Chalcolithic
Date: c. 2670 BCE
Country: Italy
Sampled near: Grotta La Sassa 41.43, 13.24
Samples: 1
Published in: SaupeScheibCurrBiol2021
Catalogue: Italy_LaSassa_CA.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	La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic)`LaSassa_CA`	2.64
2	Gattolino CA (Chalcolithic)`Gattolino_CA`	3.07
3	Ripabianca di Monterado (Neolithic)`Ripabianca_di_Monterado_N`	3.11
4	Grand Est (Middle Neolithic, France)`France_GrandEst_MN`	3.12
5	Italy (Chalcolithic)`Italy_C`	3.30
6	Czech (Neolithic)`Czech_N`	3.34
7	Balaton Lasinja (Chalcolithic, Hungary)`Hungary_C_Balaton_Lasinja`	3.40
8	Central (Neolithic, Italy)`Italy_Central_N`	3.48
9	Monte San Biagio CA (Chalcolithic)`Monte_San_Biagio_CA`	3.57
10	Bodrogkeresztur (Chalcolithic)`Bodrogkeresztur_C`	3.58

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sardinian`Sardinian`	3.87
2	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	5.39
3	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	5.44
4	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	5.96
5	Romania N`Romania_N`	6.58
6	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	7.44
7	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	9.74
8	Belmonte Jew`Belmonte_Jew`	10.69
9	Spanish La Rioja`Spanish_La_Rioja`	10.88
10	Italian Lombardy`Italian_Lombardy`	11.02

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J2a1a1b1a1a J-PF5252

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

H1bv1

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	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`LSC002.SG`	2859-2497 calBCE	Grotta La Sassa	J2a1a1b1a1a J-PF5252	H1bv1