Ancient population · Neolithic

LBK (Neolithic)

LBK_N

LBK (Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (LBK_N), with 1 sample from Lower Austria, Austria, dated to about 5000 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany), Popova (Middle Neolithic, Croatia) and Saxony LBK (Neolithic, Germany); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Macedonia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is J1c.

Period
Neolithic
Date
about 5000 BCE
Country
Austria
Origin
Lower Austria, Austria
Sampled near
Asparn Schletz 48.58, 16.47
Samples
1
Published in
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue
LBK_N

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
1LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany)Germany_EN_LBK1.14
2Popova (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)Croatia_Popova_MN1.19
3Saxony LBK (Neolithic, Germany)Germany_Saxony_LBK_N1.29
4Pop (Middle Neolithic)Pop_MN1.30
5Vinca (Middle Neolithic, Hungary)Hungary_MN_Vinca1.52
6Lasinja (Chalcolithic, Croatia)Croatia_C_Lasinja1.59
7Czech (Middle Neolithic)Czech_MN1.83
8LBK (Neolithic, Austria)Austria_N_LBK1.85
9LBK SCH (Neolithic)LBK_SCH1.99
10Sopot (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)Croatia_MN_Sopot2.01
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Bulgaria NBulgaria_N1.95
2Romania NRomania_N2.09
3Macedonia NMacedonia_N3.11
4Croatia NCroatia_N3.28
5SardinianSardinian6.22
6Sardinia NSardinia_N7.34
7French CorsicaFrench_Corsica11.04
8Belmonte JewBelmonte_Jew11.54
9Italian LazioItalian_Lazio11.69
10Sicilian EastSicilian_East11.98

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I5204M5300-5000 BCEAsparn SchletzG2a2b2a3a G-Z39332J1c2
I5070 outlierM5209-4998 calBCEAsparn SchletzC1a2