Ancient population · Bronze Age

Sicily (Middle Bronze Age, Italy)

Name: Sicily (Middle Bronze Age, Italy) (Italy_Sicily_MBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Italy_Sicily_MBA

Sicily (Middle Bronze Age, Italy) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Italy_Sicily_MBA), with 2 samples from Italy, dated to c. 1570–1540 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Boncuklu (Neolithic), Boncuklu (Neolithic, Turkey) and Yabalkovo (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Sardinian, Bulgaria N and Croatia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a and K2b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1570–1540 BCE
Country: Italy
Sampled near: Buffa 37.91, 13.48
Samples: 2
Published in: FernandesReichNatEcolEvol2020
Catalogue: Italy_Sicily_MBA_o2 outliers
Italy_Sicily_MBA_o3 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	Boncuklu (Neolithic)`Boncuklu_N`	3.73
2	Boncuklu (Neolithic, Turkey)`Turkey_Boncuklu_N`	3.73
3	Yabalkovo (Neolithic)`Yabalkovo_N`	3.90
4	Sicily (Early Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sicily_EBA`	3.93
5	Sicily (Iron Age)`Sicily_IA`	3.93
6	Tisza (Late Neolithic, Hungary) · Hungary_Tisza_LN`Hungary_Tisza_LN`	4.03
7	Ripabianca di Monterado (Neolithic)`Ripabianca_di_Monterado_N`	4.17
8	Bulgaria (Chalcolithic) · Bulgaria_C`Bulgaria_C`	4.28
9	Central (Neolithic, Italy)`Italy_Central_N`	4.31
10	La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic)`LaSassa_CA`	4.39

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sardinian`Sardinian`	4.84
2	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	5.35
3	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	5.36
4	Romania N`Romania_N`	6.36
5	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	7.06
6	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	7.64
7	Italian Lazio`Italian_Lazio`	8.13
8	Belmonte Jew`Belmonte_Jew`	8.34
9	Italian Umbria`Italian_Umbria`	8.37
10	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	8.42

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

G2a2b2a1a1c1 G-Z1903

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

K1a3a
K2b1

Individuals 2

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
`I3125` outlier	`Italy_Sicily_MBA_o2`	M	1612-1501 calBCE	Buffa	G2a2b2a1a1c1 G-Z1903	K1a3a
`I4109` outlier	`Italy_Sicily_MBA_o3`	F	1618-1510 calBCE	Buffa		K2b1