Ancient population · Bronze Age

Sardinia (Early Bronze Age, Italy)

Name: Sardinia (Early Bronze Age, Italy) (Italy_Sardinia_EBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Italy_Sardinia_EBA

Sardinia (Early Bronze Age, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sardinia_EBA), with 15 samples from Italy, dated to c. 2370–1720 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I2a (4) and R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include J2a (2), U5b (2), H and J1c.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2370–1720 BCE
Country: Italy
Sampled near: Su Crucifissu Mannu 40.48, 8.66
Sites: Su Crucifissu Mannu (5)
Padru Jossu
Riparo sotto roccia Su Asedazzu
Seulo
Samples: 15
Published in: FernandesReichNatEcolEvol2020
MarcusNovembreNatComm2020
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue: Italy_Sardinia_EBA
Italy_Sardinia_EBA_o outliers

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	Sardinia (Late Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_LBA`	1.20
2	Sardinia Nuragic (Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_BA_Nuragic`	1.20
3	France (Middle Neolithic)`France_MN`	1.31
4	GRG (Middle Neolithic)`MN_GRG`	1.40
5	Nuragic (Bronze Age, Sardinia)`Sardinia_Nuragic`	1.48
6	Sardinia (Late Chalcolithic, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_LateC`	1.51
7	Sardinia (Middle Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_MBA`	1.54
8	Switzerland 1 (Early Bronze Age)`Switzerland_EBA_1`	1.58
9	Switzerland (Late Neolithic) · Switzerland_LN`Switzerland_LN`	1.66
10	Sardinia (Neolithic, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_N`	1.77

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	3.19
2	Sardinian`Sardinian`	4.09
3	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	7.35
4	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	8.33
5	Romania N`Romania_N`	8.61
6	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	9.85
7	Basque Soule`Basque_Soule`	10.23
8	Basque Navarre North`Basque_Navarre_North`	10.46
9	Spanish La Rioja`Spanish_La_Rioja`	10.60
10	Basque Spanish`Basque_Spanish`	10.66

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

6 men with a call

I2a1b1b I-PF692 3
I2a1b2 I-Y10720
R1b R-V88
R1b1b R-PF6287

mtDNA

8 individuals with a call

Individuals 18

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	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I3743`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`	M	2136-1946 calBCE	Seulo	R1b1b R-PF6287	H
`ISB001`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`
`LON001`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`
`PJU002`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`	F	2292-2051 calBCE	Padru Jossu		U5b2b5
`S1249`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`
`S1252`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`
`SUA002`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`
`SUA007`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`	M	2026-1888 calBCE	Riparo sotto roccia Su Asedazzu	R1b R-V88	T2c1d
`SUC001`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`	F	2141-1975 calBCE	Su Crucifissu Mannu		U5b3
`SUC003`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`	M	2131-1941 calBCE	Su Crucifissu Mannu	I2a1b1b I-PF692	J1c3
`SUC004`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`
`SUC005`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`	M	2288-2136 calBCE	Su Crucifissu Mannu	I2a1b1b I-PF692	K1a4a1
`SUC006`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`
`SUC007`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`	M	2462-2290 calBCE	Su Crucifissu Mannu	I2a1b1b I-PF692	J2a1a1
`SUC009`	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`	M	1867-1631 calBCE	Su Crucifissu Mannu	I2a1b2 I-Y10720	J2a1a1a
`MA78_noUDG` outlier	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA_o`
`MA85_noUDG` outlier	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA_o`
`MA88_noUDG` outlier	`Italy_Sardinia_EBA_o`