Ancient population · Bronze Age
Moldova (Late Bronze Age)
Moldova_LBA
Moldova (Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Moldova_LBA), with 1 sample from Moldova, dated to c. 870 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Cimmerian (Iron Age, Moldova) · Moldova_Cimmerian, Cimmerian (Iron Age, Moldova) · MDA_Cimmerian and Nomad (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Besermyan, Tatar Kazan and Udmurt.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is T2b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 870 BCE
- Country
- Moldova
- Sampled near
- Hlinaia 46.65, 29.81
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Moldova_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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cimmerian (Iron Age, Moldova) · Moldova_CimmerianMoldova_Cimmerian | 4.20 |
| 2 | Cimmerian (Iron Age, Moldova) · MDA_CimmerianMDA_Cimmerian | 4.24 |
| 3 | Nomad (Iron Age)Nomad_IA | 4.71 |
| 4 | Xinjiang Zeketai (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Zeketai_IA | 4.87 |
| 5 | Xinjiang Sahaxibei (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Sahaxibei_IA | 4.96 |
| 6 | Xinjiang Kuokesuxi (Early Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Kuokesuxi_EIA | 5.23 |
| 7 | Xinjiang Jirentaigoukou (Early Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Jirentaigoukou_EIA | 5.31 |
| 8 | Xinjiang Simutasi (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Simutasi_IA | 5.32 |
| 9 | Kazakstan Sargat (Iron Age)Kazakstan_Sargat_IA | 5.34 |
| 10 | Xinjiang Caishichang (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA | 5.36 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BesermyanBesermyan | 5.32 |
| 2 | Tatar KazanTatar_Kazan | 6.00 |
| 3 | UdmurtUdmurt | 6.43 |
| 4 | Tatar LipkaTatar_Lipka | 6.81 |
| 5 | ChuvashChuvash | 8.24 |
| 6 | KomiKomi | 8.31 |
| 7 | Tatar MisharTatar_Mishar | 8.45 |
| 8 | Komi AKomi_A | 8.70 |
| 9 | Tatar Crimean steppeTatar_Crimean_steppe | 9.31 |
| 10 | SaamiSaami | 9.63 |
Haplogroups
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.