Ancient population · Bronze Age

Latvia (Bronze Age)

Name: Latvia (Bronze Age) (Latvia_BA)
Creator: Genoplot

Latvia_BA

Latvia (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Latvia_BA), with 9 samples from Latvia, dated to c. 750–350 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Estonia (Bronze Age), Baltic (Bronze Age, Estonia) and Marvele Roman (Antiquity, Lithuania); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian SZ and Lithuanian PZ.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a (4); its mtDNA haplogroups include H1b (2), U5a (2), H10a and T1a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 750–350 BCE
Country: Latvia
Sampled near: Kivutkalns 56.85, 24.27
Samples: 9
Published in: MittnikKrauseNatComm2018
Catalogue: Latvia_BA

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	Estonia (Bronze Age)`Estonia_BA`	1.37
2	Baltic (Bronze Age, Estonia)`Baltic_EST_BA`	1.38
3	Marvele Roman (Antiquity, Lithuania)`Lithuania_Marvele_Roman`	2.03
4	Bailuliai Barrow Culture (Antiquity, Lithuania)`Lithuania_Bailuliai_BarrowCulture`	2.60
5	Viminacium Roman (Antiquity, Serbia)`Serbia_Viminacium_Roman`	3.25
6	Ingria (Iron Age)`Ingria_IA`	3.75
7	Ingria (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_IA_Ingria`	3.85
8	Lithuania (Bronze Age)`Lithuania_BA`	4.08
9	Baltic Late Antiquity low res (Antiquity, Lithuania)`Baltic_LTU_Late_Antiquity_low_res`	5.05
10	Baltic (Iron Age, Estonia)`Baltic_EST_IA`	5.10

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Latvian`Latvian`	3.72
2	Lithuanian SZ`Lithuanian_SZ`	3.97
3	Lithuanian PZ`Lithuanian_PZ`	4.09
4	Lithuanian RA`Lithuanian_RA`	4.83
5	Lithuanian VZ`Lithuanian_VZ`	4.86
6	Lithuanian VA`Lithuanian_VA`	5.40
7	Estonian`Estonian`	5.57
8	Russian Pskov`Russian_Pskov`	5.79
9	Lithuanian PA`Lithuanian_PA`	5.89
10	Belarusian`Belarusian`	6.48

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call of 6

R1a1a1 R-M417 4

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 9

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
`Kivutkalns153`	M	796-549 calBCE	Kivutkalns	R1a1a1 R-M417	U5a1a1
`Kivutkalns19`	M	720-401 calBCE	Kivutkalns	R1a1a1 R-Z645	H10a
`Kivutkalns194`	M	407-228 calBCE	Kivutkalns	R1a1a1 R-M417	T1a1b
`Kivutkalns207`	F	787-541 calBCE	Kivutkalns		H1b2
`Kivutkalns209`	M	788-549 calBCE	Kivutkalns
`Kivutkalns215`	F	758-418 calBCE	Kivutkalns
`Kivutkalns222`	M	745-404 calBCE	Kivutkalns	R1a1a1 R-M417	U5a1c1
`Kivutkalns25`	M	799-549 calBCE	Kivutkalns
`Kivutkalns42`	F	809-570 calBCE	Kivutkalns		H1b1