Ancient population · Chalcolithic

La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic)

Name: La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic) (LaSassa_CA)
Creator: Genoplot

LaSassa_CA

La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (LaSassa_CA), with 2 samples from Lazio, Italy, dated to c. 2670 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic, Italy), Gattolino CA (Chalcolithic) and Baden Yamnaya (Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, Hungary); the nearest living populations are Sardinian, Sardinia N and Croatia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is H1bv.

Period: Chalcolithic
Date: c. 2670 BCE
Country: Italy
Origin: Lazio, Italy
Sampled near: Grotta La Sassa 41.43, 13.24
Samples: 2
Published in: SaupeScheibCurrBiol2021
Catalogue: LaSassa_CA

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	La Sassa CA (Chalcolithic, Italy)`Italy_LaSassa_CA`	2.64
2	Gattolino CA (Chalcolithic)`Gattolino_CA`	2.83
3	Baden Yamnaya (Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age, Hungary)`Hungary_LateC_EBA_Baden_Yamnaya`	3.03
4	Grand Est (Middle Neolithic, France)`France_GrandEst_MN`	3.10
5	Ripabianca di Monterado (Neolithic)`Ripabianca_di_Monterado_N`	3.16
6	BKG (Chalcolithic, Poland)`Poland_BKG`	3.25
7	BKG (Neolithic)`BKG_N`	3.26
8	Bodrogkeresztur (Chalcolithic)`Bodrogkeresztur_C`	3.27
9	Czech (Neolithic)`Czech_N`	3.33
10	Italy (Chalcolithic)`Italy_C`	3.36

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sardinian`Sardinian`	2.34
2	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	5.12
3	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	5.63
4	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	5.87
5	Romania N`Romania_N`	6.57
6	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	7.77
7	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	8.33
8	Belmonte Jew`Belmonte_Jew`	9.52
9	Spanish La Rioja`Spanish_La_Rioja`	9.58
10	Italian Lombardy`Italian_Lombardy`	9.58

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J2a1a1b1a1a J-PF5252

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

H1bv1

Individuals 2

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	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`LSC002_004`	2859-2497 calBCE	Grotta La Sassa	J2a1a1b1a1a J-PF5252	H1bv1
`LSC005A1_013`		Lazio, Italy