Ancient population · Bronze Age

Sardinia (Chalcolithic–Bronze Age, Italy)

Italy_Sardinia_C_BA

Sardinia (Chalcolithic–Bronze Age, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sardinia_C_BA), with 3 samples from Italy, dated to c. 2200–1920 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sardinia (Late Chalcolithic, Italy), GRG (Middle Neolithic) and Sardinia Nuragic (Bronze Age, Italy); the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Croatia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups G2a and I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1e, HV0a and J2b.

Date
c. 2200–1920 BCE
Country
Italy
Sampled near
Su Crucifissu Mannu 40.81, 8.44
Samples
3
Catalogue
Italy_Sardinia_C_BA.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
1Sardinia (Late Chalcolithic, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_LateC1.29
2GRG (Middle Neolithic)MN_GRG1.33
3Sardinia Nuragic (Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_BA_Nuragic1.62
4Sardinia (Late Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_LBA1.68
5Sardinia Monte Claro (Chalcolithic, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_C_MonteClaro1.70
6FLR (Middle Neolithic)MN_FLR1.73
7France (Middle Neolithic)France_MN1.76
8Sardinia (Neolithic, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_N1.78
9Sardinia (Early Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_EBA1.85
10Sardinia (Middle Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_MBA1.95
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Sardinia NSardinia_N4.05
2SardinianSardinian4.28
3Croatia NCroatia_N6.22
4Bulgaria NBulgaria_N7.43
5Romania NRomania_N7.74
6Macedonia NMacedonia_N8.74
7French CorsicaFrench_Corsica11.32
8Basque SouleBasque_Soule11.38
9Spanish La RiojaSpanish_La_Rioja11.53
10Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North11.58

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men 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
R22.SGF2015-1826 calBCESu Crucifissu MannuHV0a
R27.SGM3500-900 BCESu Crucifissu MannuI2a1b1a1b2a I-Y7839H1e1a
R29.SGM3500-900 BCESu Crucifissu MannuG2a2b2b1a1 G-F872J2b1a