Ancient population · Bronze Age
Minoan Odigitria low res (Bronze Age)
Minoan_Odigitria_low_res
Minoan Odigitria low res (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Minoan_Odigitria_low_res), with 3 samples from Crete, Greece, dated to about 1945 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece), Peloponnese (Neolithic, Greece) and Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Macedonia N.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H, K1a and U3b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- about 1945 BCE
- Country
- Greece
- Origin
- Crete, Greece
- Sampled near
- Moni Odigitria 35.05, 24.81
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- LazaridisStamatoyannopoulosNature2017
- Catalogue
Minoan_Odigitria_low_res
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Lassithi | 3.39 |
| 2 | Peloponnese (Neolithic, Greece)Greece_Peloponnese_N | 3.54 |
| 3 | Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic, Turkey)Turkey_TepecikCiftlik_N | 4.04 |
| 4 | Manika Helladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Manika_Helladic_EBA | 4.12 |
| 5 | Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic)Tepecik_Ciftlik_N | 4.19 |
| 6 | Middle Minoan (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_MiddleMinoan | 4.40 |
| 7 | Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA | 4.44 |
| 8 | Minoan Kephala Petras (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Kephala_Petras | 4.67 |
| 9 | Yabalkovo (Neolithic)Yabalkovo_N | 4.72 |
| 10 | Turkey (Neolithic)Turkey_N | 4.75 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bulgaria NBulgaria_N | 4.79 |
| 2 | Romania NRomania_N | 5.63 |
| 3 | Macedonia NMacedonia_N | 5.85 |
| 4 | Croatia NCroatia_N | 6.77 |
| 5 | SardinianSardinian | 8.22 |
| 6 | Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria | 9.01 |
| 7 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 9.04 |
| 8 | Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani | 9.11 |
| 9 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 9.21 |
| 10 | Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese | 9.24 |
Haplogroups
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.