Ancient population · Neolithic

Sardinia (Neolithic, Italy)

Name: Sardinia (Neolithic, Italy) (Italy_Sardinia_N)
Creator: Genoplot

Italy_Sardinia_N

Sardinia (Neolithic, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sardinia_N), with 13 samples from Italy, dated to c. 4140–2230 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups H2c (2), I2a (2) and G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H4a (2), H1k, J1c and J2a.

Period: Neolithic
Date: c. 4140–2230 BCE
Country: Italy
Sampled near: Anghelu Ruju 40.61, 8.41
Sites: Anghelu Ruju (8)
Sa Ucca de su Tintirriolu (2)
S'isteridolzu
Su Crucifissu Mannu
Samples: 13
Published in: FernandesReichNatEcolEvol2020
AkbariReichNature2026
MarcusNovembreNatComm2020
Catalogue: Italy_Sardinia_N
Italy_Sardinia_N_o outliers
Italy_Sardinia_N_o.SG outliers
Italy_Sardinia_N_oAfrica 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`	1.23
2	Sardinia (Late Chalcolithic, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_LateC`	1.47
3	Sardinia (Late Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_LBA`	1.52
4	FLR (Middle Neolithic)`MN_FLR`	1.68
5	GRG (Middle Neolithic)`MN_GRG`	1.75
6	Sardinia (Early Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`	1.77
7	Sardinia (Chalcolithic–Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_C_BA`	1.78
8	France (Middle Neolithic)`France_MN`	1.84
9	Spain (Early Neolithic)`Spain_EN`	1.93
10	Nuragic (Bronze Age, Sardinia)`Sardinia_Nuragic`	2.00

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	2.98
2	Sardinian`Sardinian`	4.51
3	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	6.90
4	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	7.63
5	Romania N`Romania_N`	7.82
6	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	9.04
7	Basque Soule`Basque_Soule`	11.39
8	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	11.55
9	Basque Navarre North`Basque_Navarre_North`	11.66
10	Spanish La Rioja`Spanish_La_Rioja`	11.67

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

6 men with a call

H2c1a H-Y21612 2
G2a2a1a2a1 G-Z6802
I I
I2a1b1a I-Y3670
I2a1b1a1b2 I-Y7240

mtDNA

12 individuals with a call

Individuals 16

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
`I15941`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	M	2343-2144 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju	H2c1a H-Y21612	H1k
`I15942`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	M	2459-2209 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju	G2a2a1a2a1 G-Z6802	H4a1a
`I15943`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	F	3936-3657 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju		U1a1a
`I15945`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	F	3967-3798 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju		J2b1a
`I15946`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	M	4158-3958 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju	I2a1b1a1b2 I-Y7240	T2c1d
`I16165`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	F	3787-3652 calBCE	Sa Ucca de su Tintirriolu		V
`I16166`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	M	3941-3658 calBCE	Sa Ucca de su Tintirriolu	I I	J1c1
`I16168`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	M	3949-3714 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju	H2c1a H-Y21612	U5b2b3
`I16169`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	F	2334-2140 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju		T2b3
`I16183`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	F	3346-3098 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju		J2a1a1
`LON003`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`
`SID005`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	M	4310-4047 calBCE	S'isteridolzu	I2a1b1a I-Y3670	K1a
`SUC008`	`Italy_Sardinia_N`	F	3947-3779 calBCE	Su Crucifissu Mannu		H4a1a
`I15940` outlier	`Italy_Sardinia_N_oAfrica`	M	2397-2146 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju	E1b1b1a2 E-Y21095	M1a1b1
`MA79_noUDG` outlier	`Italy_Sardinia_N_o`
`R24.SG` outlier	`Italy_Sardinia_N_o.SG`	F	3599-3373 calBCE	Su Crucifissu Mannu		U8b1b1