Ancient population · Bronze Age
Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy)
Italy_Sicily_LBA
Sicily (Late Bronze Age, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sicily_LBA), with 3 samples from Italy, dated to c. 1270–980 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sicily (Iron Age), Himera East Necropolis (Iron Age, Sicily) and Sicily (Early Bronze Age, Italy); the nearest living populations are Sardinian, Bulgaria N and Romania N.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a (2) and H1e.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1270–980 BCE
- Country
- Italy
- Sampled near
- Marcita 37.68, 12.79
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- FernandesReichNatEcolEvol2020
- Catalogue
Italy_Sicily_LBA
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 | Sicily (Iron Age)Sicily_IA | 1.60 |
| 2 | Himera East Necropolis (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_East_Necropolis | 1.98 |
| 3 | Sicily (Early Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_Sicily_EBA | 2.20 |
| 4 | Sardinia Punic 2 (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_2 | 2.64 |
| 5 | Sardinia Sant Imbenia Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_SantImbenia_RomanImperial | 3.29 |
| 6 | Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE | 3.42 |
| 7 | Aktopraklik (Late Neolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Aktopraklik_LN | 3.44 |
| 8 | Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)Bulgaria_EIA | 3.45 |
| 9 | Bulgaria (Chalcolithic) · Bulgaria_CBulgaria_C | 3.51 |
| 10 | Varna (Chalcolithic, Bulgaria)Bulgaria_Varna_C | 3.85 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SardinianSardinian | 4.38 |
| 2 | Bulgaria NBulgaria_N | 5.47 |
| 3 | Romania NRomania_N | 6.01 |
| 4 | French CorsicaFrench_Corsica | 6.34 |
| 5 | Croatia NCroatia_N | 6.58 |
| 6 | Italian LazioItalian_Lazio | 7.01 |
| 7 | Italian UmbriaItalian_Umbria | 7.34 |
| 8 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 7.36 |
| 9 | Italian LombardyItalian_Lombardy | 7.42 |
| 10 | Sicilian EastSicilian_East | 7.46 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I10372 | F | 1377-1130 calBCE | Marcita | K1a3a | |
I3876 | M | 1107-901 calBCE | Marcita | G2a2b2a1a1c1 G-Z1903 | H1e5 |
I3878 | F | 1382-1134 calBCE | Marcita | K1a |