Ancient population · Bronze Age
Sardinia (Late Chalcolithic, Italy)
Italy_Sardinia_LateC
Sardinia (Late Chalcolithic, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sardinia_LateC), with 5 samples from Italy, dated to c. 2400–2290 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sardinia (Late Bronze Age, Italy), Sardinia (Chalcolithic–Bronze Age, Italy) and Sardinia Nuragic (Bronze Age, Italy); the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Croatia N.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c (2), J2b (2) and K2b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2400–2290 BCE
- Country
- Italy
- Sampled near
- Serra Cabriles 40.79, 8.60
- Samples
- 5
- Published in
- AkbariReichNature2026
MarcusNovembreNatComm2020 - Catalogue
Italy_Sardinia_LateC
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sardinia (Late Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_LBA | 1.18 |
| 2 | Sardinia (Chalcolithic–Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_C_BA | 1.29 |
| 3 | Sardinia Nuragic (Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_BA_Nuragic | 1.32 |
| 4 | GRG (Middle Neolithic)MN_GRG | 1.47 |
| 5 | Sardinia (Neolithic, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_N | 1.47 |
| 6 | Sardinia (Early Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_EBA | 1.51 |
| 7 | FLR (Middle Neolithic)MN_FLR | 1.69 |
| 8 | France (Middle Neolithic)France_MN | 1.70 |
| 9 | Sardinia Monte Claro (Chalcolithic, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_C_MonteClaro | 1.82 |
| 10 | Sardinia (Middle Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_MBA | 2.05 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sardinia NSardinia_N | 3.76 |
| 2 | SardinianSardinian | 4.59 |
| 3 | Croatia NCroatia_N | 6.89 |
| 4 | Bulgaria NBulgaria_N | 7.85 |
| 5 | Romania NRomania_N | 8.11 |
| 6 | Macedonia NMacedonia_N | 9.22 |
| 7 | Basque SouleBasque_Soule | 11.30 |
| 8 | Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North | 11.54 |
| 9 | French CorsicaFrench_Corsica | 11.54 |
| 10 | Spanish La RiojaSpanish_La_Rioja | 11.59 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 5
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.