Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

BDB (Mesolithic)

Name: BDB (Mesolithic) (Meso_BDB)
Creator: Genoplot

Meso_BDB

BDB (Mesolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Meso_BDB), with 1 sample from Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, dated to c. 6650 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Germany (Mesolithic), Ireland (Mesolithic) and Sicily Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian SZ and Lithuanian PZ.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is U4b.

Period: Hunter-Gatherer
Date: c. 6650 BCE
Country: Germany
Origin: Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Sampled near: Bad-Dürrenberg 51.30, 12.07
Samples: 1
Published in: RivollatHaakSciAdv2020
Catalogue: Meso_BDB

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	Germany (Mesolithic)`Germany_Mesolithic`	0.98
2	Ireland (Mesolithic)`Ireland_Mesolithic`	3.11
3	Sicily Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic`	3.19
4	Sicily (Mesolithic)`Sicily_Meso`	3.55
5	North Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`Italy_North_Villabruna_HG`	3.69
6	Villabruna (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`ITA_Villabruna`	3.69
7	Syltholm LM (Early Neolithic, Denmark)`Denmark_Syltholm_LM_EN`	3.93
8	Sicily Late Mesolithic Castelnovian (Hunter-Gatherer, Italy)`Italy_Sicily_LateMesolithic_Castelnovian`	3.93
9	Croatia (Mesolithic–Hunter-Gatherer)`Croatia_Mesolithic_HG`	3.99
10	Loschbour (Hunter-Gatherer, Luxembourg) · Luxembourg_Loschbour`Luxembourg_Loschbour`	4.11

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Latvian`Latvian`	31.05
2	Lithuanian SZ`Lithuanian_SZ`	31.14
3	Lithuanian PZ`Lithuanian_PZ`	31.18
4	Estonian`Estonian`	31.39
5	Finnish East`Finnish_East`	31.78
6	Lithuanian VZ`Lithuanian_VZ`	31.82
7	Karelian`Karelian`	31.83
8	Finnish Southeast`Finnish_Southeast`	31.84
9	Lithuanian VA`Lithuanian_VA`	31.86
10	Russian Pskov`Russian_Pskov`	31.95

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

U4b1b1

Individuals 1

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	mtDNA
`BDB001.merged`	F	7100-6200 BCE	Bad-Dürrenberg	U4b1b1