Ancient population · Bronze Age

ME GAC (Bronze Age)

ME_GAC

ME GAC (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (ME_GAC), with 3 samples from Central Bohemian, Czech Republic, dated to c. 2740–2670 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Globular Amphora (Neolithic, Czech), Globular Amphora (Bronze Age) and Koszyce Globular Amphora (Bronze Age, Poland); the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Basque Soule.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a, U5b and V.

Date
c. 2740–2670 BCE
Country
Czechia
Origin
Central Bohemian, Czech Republic
Sampled near
Blšany 50.32, 14.70
Sites
Blšany
Předměřice-nad-Labem
Vliněves
Samples
3
Catalogue
ME_GAC

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
1Globular Amphora (Neolithic, Czech)Czech_N_GlobularAmphora0.79
2Globular Amphora (Bronze Age)Globular_Amphora1.04
3Koszyce Globular Amphora (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_Koszyce_GlobularAmphora1.10
4Ansarve Megalithic (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Ansarve_Megalithic1.96
5Globular Amphora (Bronze Age, Ukraine)Ukraine_GlobularAmphora1.97
6Sandomierz Globular Amphora (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_Sandomierz_GlobularAmphora2.07
7Globular Amphora (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_GlobularAmphora2.08
8Ksiaznice Globular Amphora (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_Ksiaznice_GlobularAmphora2.16
9Megalithic Ansarve (Bronze Age)Megalithic_Ansarve2.18
10Globular Amphora (Early Bronze Age, Ukraine)Ukraine_EBA_GlobularAmphora2.62
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Sardinia NSardinia_N6.14
2SardinianSardinian6.37
3Basque SouleBasque_Soule7.18
4Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North7.34
5Basque BaztanBasque_Baztan7.62
6Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish7.65
7Basque FrenchBasque_French7.68
8Basque Lower NavarreBasque_Lower_Navarre7.69
9Basque RoncalBasque_Roncal7.77
10Basque Gipuzkoa SouthwestBasque_Gipuzkoa_Southwest7.78

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
BLS002.A0101F2872-2626 calBCEBlšanyK1a3a
PRE001.A0101F2857-2501 calBCEPředměřice-nad-LabemU5b2c
VLI032.A0101M2870-2583 calBCEVliněvesR1b R-V88V