Ancient population · Bronze Age

Sicily (Early Bronze Age, Italy)

Name: Sicily (Early Bronze Age, Italy) (Italy_Sicily_EBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Italy_Sicily_EBA

Sicily (Early Bronze Age, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sicily_EBA), with 4 samples from Italy, dated to c. 2170–1780 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sicily (Iron Age), Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy) and Sardinia Sant Imbenia Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy); the nearest living populations are Sardinian, Bulgaria N and Croatia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (3) and J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H, H71, K1a and U8b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2170–1780 BCE
Country: Italy
Sampled near: Buffa 37.65, 13.75
Sites: Buffa (3)
Contrada Paolina
Samples: 4
Published in: FernandesReichNatEcolEvol2020
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue: Italy_Sicily_EBA
Italy_Sicily_EBA_o1 outliers
Italy_Sicily_EBA_o2 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	Sicily (Iron Age)`Sicily_IA`	1.74
2	Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sicily_LBA`	2.20
3	Sardinia Sant Imbenia Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_SantImbenia_RomanImperial`	2.34
4	Himera East Necropolis (Iron Age, Sicily)`Sicily_Himera_East_Necropolis`	2.75
5	Aktopraklik (Late Neolithic, Turkey)`Turkey_Aktopraklik_LN`	2.90
6	Sardinia Punic 2 (Iron Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_2`	3.06
7	Olmo di Nogara (Middle Bronze Age)`Olmo_di_Nogara_MBA`	3.30
8	Varna (Chalcolithic, Bulgaria)`Bulgaria_Varna_C`	3.39
9	Bulgaria (Chalcolithic) · Bulgaria_C`Bulgaria_C`	3.42
10	La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic)`LaSassa_CA`	3.44

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sardinian`Sardinian`	3.03
2	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	5.39
3	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	5.66
4	Romania N`Romania_N`	6.05
5	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	6.42
6	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	6.43
7	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	7.57
8	Italian Lombardy`Italian_Lombardy`	7.59
9	Italian Lazio`Italian_Lazio`	7.61
10	Italian Umbria`Italian_Umbria`	7.83

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151 2
J2a1a1b1a1a J-PF5174
R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y151233

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 9

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
`I11442`	`Italy_Sicily_EBA`	M	2276-2060 calBCE	Buffa	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	K1a3a
`I3123`	`Italy_Sicily_EBA`	M	2287-2041 calBCE	Buffa	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	U8b1b1
`I3124`	`Italy_Sicily_EBA`	M	1949-1774 calBCE	Buffa	R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y151233	H71
`I7796`	`Italy_Sicily_EBA`	M	1880-1689 calBCE	Contrada Paolina	J2a1a1b1a1a J-PF5174	H
`I11443` outlier	`Italy_Sicily_EBA_o2`	M	2279-2102 calBCE	Buffa	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	U5b2c
`I3122` outlier	`Italy_Sicily_EBA`	F	2272-2032 calBCE	Buffa		T2b
`I7807` outlier	`Italy_Sicily_EBA`	F	2195-2027 calBCE	Contrada Paolina		T2c1
`I8561` outlier	`Italy_Sicily_EBA_o1`	M	2399-2153 calBCE	Isnello	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	K1b1
`UZZ057_noUDG` outlier	`Italy_Sicily_EBA`	M	2196-2031 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo	R1b1a1b1a R-L51