Ancient population · Bronze Age

Moldova (Bronze Age)

Name: Moldova (Bronze Age) (Moldova_BA)
Creator: Genoplot

Moldova_BA

Moldova (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Moldova_BA), with 2 samples from Moldova, dated to c. 2000 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Southeast Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Poland), Multi Cordoned Ware (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova) and Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Czech); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Finnish and Finnish Central.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include U2e and V7.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2000 BCE
Country: Moldova
Sampled near: Crihana-Veche 45.85, 28.19
Samples: 2
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Moldova_BA

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	Southeast Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Poland)`Poland_Southeast_CordedWare`	2.19
2	Multi Cordoned Ware (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova)`Moldova_MBA_MultiCordonedWare`	2.39
3	Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_CordedWare`	2.42
4	Corded Ware early (Bronze Age, Czechia)`Corded_Ware_CZE_early`	2.51
5	Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_CordedWare`	2.62
6	Sabatinovka (Late Bronze Age, Moldova)`Moldova_LBA_Sabatinovka`	2.72
7	Moldova (Middle Bronze Age)`Moldova_MBA`	2.73
8	Taldysay MLBA1 (Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Taldysay_MLBA1`	2.73
9	Verteba Cave Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Ukraine)`Ukraine_VertebaCave_CordedWare`	2.74
10	Srubnaya Alakul (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Srubnaya_Alakul`	2.75

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Czech Modern`Czech_Modern`	7.80
2	Finnish`Finnish`	8.32
3	Finnish Central`Finnish_Central`	8.33
4	Ingrian`Ingrian`	8.37
5	Finnish Southeast`Finnish_Southeast`	8.54
6	Erzya`Erzya`	8.62
7	Russian Kostroma`Russian_Kostroma`	8.63
8	Mordovian`Mordovian`	8.68
9	Finnish Southwest`Finnish_Southwest`	8.69
10	Moksha`Moksha`	8.71

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1a1a1b2h1 R-YP5582

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

U2e2a
V7

Individuals 2

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	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I10420`	F	3000-1000 BCE	Crihana-Veche		V7
`I10421`	M	3000-1000 BCE	Crihana-Veche	R1a1a1b2h1 R-YP5582	U2e2a