Ancient population · Bronze Age

Montenegro (Late Bronze Age)

MNE_LBA

Montenegro (Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (MNE_LBA), with 1 sample from Tivat, Montenegro, dated to c. 1350 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age), Croatia (Middle Bronze Age) · Croatia_MBA and Cetina (Middle Bronze Age, Croatia); the nearest living populations are Italian Veneto, Italian Trentino Alto Adige and Italian Trentino-Alto-Adige.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2b; its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a.

Date
c. 1350 BCE
Country
Montenegro
Origin
Tivat, Montenegro
Sampled near
Velika Gruda 42.38, 18.74
Samples
1
Catalogue
MNE_LBA

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
1Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Montenegro_MLBA2.09
2Croatia (Middle Bronze Age) · Croatia_MBACroatia_MBA2.33
3Cetina (Middle Bronze Age, Croatia)Croatia_MBA_Cetina2.45
4Croatia (Bronze Age)Croatia_BA2.46
5Himera 480BCE 2 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_22.51
6Croatia (Early Iron Age)Croatia_EIA2.55
7Albania (Bronze Age–Iron Age)Albania_BA_IA2.61
8La Tene (Iron Age, Hungary) · Hungary_LaTeneHungary_LaTene2.63
9Macedonia (Iron Age)Macedonia_IA2.77
10LA o1Central European (Medieval, Italy)Italy_LA_o1CentralEuropean2.86
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Italian VenetoItalian_Veneto2.47
2Italian Trentino Alto AdigeItalian_Trentino_Alto_Adige2.49
3Italian Trentino-Alto-AdigeItalian_Trentino-Alto-Adige2.61
4Italian BergamoItalian_Bergamo2.63
5Italian PiedmontItalian_Piedmont2.73
6Italian LombardyItalian_Lombardy2.77
7Italian NortheastItalian_Northeast2.84
8Italian EmiliaItalian_Emilia2.99
9Swiss ItalianSwiss_Italian3.10
10French ProvenceFrench_Provence3.47

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I13777M1450-1250 BCEVelika GrudaJ2b2a1 J-L283U5a2d