Ancient population · Bronze Age

Lech (Early Bronze Age)

Name: Lech (Early Bronze Age) (Lech_EBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Lech_EBA

Lech (Early Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Lech_EBA), with 3 samples from Bavaria, Germany, dated to about 1946 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Battle Axe (Bronze Age), Tver Fatyanovo (Bronze Age, Russia) and Czech (Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Norwegian and Swedish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a and T1a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: about 1946 BCE
Country: Germany
Origin: Bavaria, Germany
Sampled near: Haunstetten-Postillionstraße 48.30, 10.89
Samples: 3
Published in: MittnikKrauseScience2019
Catalogue: Lech_EBA
Lech_EBA_contam 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
#	Population	Distance
1	Battle Axe (Bronze Age)`Battle_Axe`	3.42
2	Tver Fatyanovo (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Tver_Fatyanovo_BA`	3.53
3	Czech (Early Bronze Age)`Czech_EBA`	3.60
4	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England)`England_BellBeaker`	3.71
5	Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)`Sweden_BattleAxe`	3.75
6	BAC (Bronze Age, Sweden)`Sweden_BAC`	3.76
7	Netherlands (Early Bronze Age)`Netherlands_EBA`	3.82
8	Scotland (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)`Scotland_C_EBA`	3.88
9	Fatyanovo Yaroslavl (Bronze Age)`Fatyanovo_Yaroslavl_BA`	3.89
10	Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Poland)`Poland_EBA_Unetice`	3.89

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Czech Modern`Czech_Modern`	4.60
2	Norwegian`Norwegian`	5.54
3	Swedish`Swedish`	5.64
4	Icelandic`Icelandic`	5.66
5	Danish`Danish`	5.71
6	Irish`Irish`	5.73
7	Scottish`Scottish`	5.95
8	Orcadian`Orcadian`	5.95
9	Dutch`Dutch`	5.97
10	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	6.02

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2 2

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

K1a3a
T1a1

Individuals 4

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
`POST_44`	`Lech_EBA_contam`	M	2189-1976 calBCE	Haunstetten-Postillionstraße	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	K1a3a
`POST_50`	`Lech_EBA_contam`	M	2199-2027 calBCE	Haunstetten-Postillionstraße	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	T1a1
`WEHR_1415adult_d`	`Lech_EBA`		1946 BCE	Bavaria, Germany
`WEHR_1415child` outlier	`Lech_EBA_contam`	M	2022-1891 calBCE	Wehringen-Hochfeld	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	H13a2b2a