Ancient population · Bronze Age

Corded Ware (Late Neolithic, Latvia)

Latvia_LN_CordedWare

Corded Ware (Late Neolithic, Latvia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Latvia_LN_CordedWare), with 2 samples from Latvia, dated to c. 2890 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Poland), Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia) and Corded Ware early (Bronze Age, Poland); the nearest living populations are Finnish Central, Finnish East and Finnish North.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a.

Date
c. 2890 BCE
Country
Latvia
Sampled near
Zvejnieki 56.28, 25.13
Samples
2
Catalogue
Latvia_LN_CordedWare
Latvia_LN_CordedWare.SG variant

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
#PopulationDistance
1Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_CordedWare4.24
2Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MBA_Poltavka4.48
3Corded Ware early (Bronze Age, Poland)Corded_Ware_POL_early4.52
4Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Afanasievo5.20
5Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya5.21
6Catacomb (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova)Moldova_MBA_Catacomb5.25
7Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia)Yamnaya_RUS_Kalmykia5.25
8Kalmykia Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Kalmykia_EBA_Yamnaya5.34
9Afanasievo 1 (Chalcolithic, Mongolia)Mongolia_Chalcolithic_Afanasievo_15.38
10Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Steppe_Catacomb5.43
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Finnish CentralFinnish_Central11.72
2Finnish EastFinnish_East11.78
3Finnish NorthFinnish_North11.92
4FinnishFinnish11.93
5IngrianIngrian11.98
6KarelianKarelian12.10
7Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast12.24
8Finnish SouthwestFinnish_Southwest12.33
9Russian KostromaRussian_Kostroma12.35
10Russian PinezhskyRussian_Pinezhsky12.36

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSitemtDNA
I4629Latvia_LN_CordedWareF3091-2671 calBCEZvejniekiU5a1b
Latvia_LN1_noUDG.SGLatvia_LN_CordedWare.SG