Ancient population · Bronze Age

Sardinia (Middle Bronze Age, Italy)

Name: Sardinia (Middle Bronze Age, Italy) (Italy_Sardinia_MBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Italy_Sardinia_MBA

Sardinia (Middle Bronze Age, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sardinia_MBA), with 2 samples from Italy, dated to c. 1480–1390 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H3 and J1c.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1480–1390 BCE
Country: Italy
Sampled near: Anghelu Ruju 40.63, 8.32
Samples: 2
Published in: FernandesReichNatEcolEvol2020
PattersonReichNature2021
Catalogue: Italy_Sardinia_MBA
Italy_Sardinia_MBA_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 Nuragic (Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_BA_Nuragic`	1.52
2	Sardinia (Early Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`	1.54
3	Sardinia (Late Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_LBA`	1.65
4	GRG (Middle Neolithic)`MN_GRG`	1.84
5	France (Middle Neolithic)`France_MN`	1.91
6	Nuragic (Bronze Age, Sardinia)`Sardinia_Nuragic`	1.94
7	Sardinia (Chalcolithic–Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_C_BA`	1.95
8	Sardinia (Late Chalcolithic, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_LateC`	2.05
9	Sardinia (Neolithic, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_N`	2.09
10	Sardinia Monte Claro (Chalcolithic, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_C_MonteClaro`	2.13

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	3.83
2	Sardinian`Sardinian`	4.30
3	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	7.52
4	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	8.43
5	Romania N`Romania_N`	8.79
6	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	9.90
7	Basque Soule`Basque_Soule`	10.56
8	Basque Navarre North`Basque_Navarre_North`	10.75
9	Spanish La Rioja`Spanish_La_Rioja`	10.89
10	Basque Spanish`Basque_Spanish`	10.95

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

I2a1a1a1a1 I-L160

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

H3
J1c3

Individuals 3

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
`I16161`	`Italy_Sardinia_MBA`	F	1534-1438 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju		J1c3
`I16170_enhanced`	`Italy_Sardinia_MBA`	M	1491-1301 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju	I2a1a1a1a1 I-L160	H3
`I10365` outlier	`Italy_Sardinia_MBA_o`	M	1663-1234 calBCE	Seulo	G2a2a1a2a1b2 G-PF3158	T2b3a