Ancient population · Bronze Age

Catacomb (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova)

Name: Catacomb (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova) (Moldova_MBA_Catacomb)
Creator: Genoplot

Moldova_MBA_Catacomb

Catacomb (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Moldova_MBA_Catacomb), with 2 samples from Moldova, dated to c. 2500 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia), Caucasus Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia) and Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Erzya, Mordovian and Finnish Central.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H6a and W6.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2500 BCE
Country: Moldova
Sampled near: Sărăteni 46.73, 29.03
Sites: Sărăteni
Tiraspol
Samples: 2
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Moldova_MBA_Catacomb

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	Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Steppe_Catacomb`	2.86
2	Caucasus Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Caucasus_EBA_Yamnaya`	3.13
3	Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_MBA_Poltavka`	3.29
4	Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia)`Yamnaya_RUS_Kalmykia`	3.30
5	Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Poland)`Poland_CordedWare`	3.34
6	Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Afanasievo`	3.35
7	Kalmykia Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Kalmykia_EBA_Yamnaya`	3.40
8	Afanasievo 1 (Chalcolithic, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Chalcolithic_Afanasievo_1`	3.47
9	Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Ukraine)`Ukraine_EBA_Yamnaya`	3.56
10	Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA`	3.57

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Erzya`Erzya`	11.48
2	Mordovian`Mordovian`	11.50
3	Finnish Central`Finnish_Central`	11.54
4	Finnish East`Finnish_East`	11.60
5	Russian Kostroma`Russian_Kostroma`	11.61
6	Russian Leshukonsky`Russian_Leshukonsky`	11.67
7	Moksha`Moksha`	11.68
8	Ingrian`Ingrian`	11.68
9	Finnish North`Finnish_North`	11.69
10	Finnish`Finnish`	11.73

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1b1a1b1b3 R-BY44400 2

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

H6a1a
W6

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
`I20077`	M	2800-2200 BCE	Sărăteni	R1b1a1b1b3 R-BY44400	W6
`I20083`	M	2800-2200 BCE	Tiraspol	R1b1a1b1b3 R-BY44400	H6a1a