Ancient population · Bronze Age

Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age)

Name: Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age) (Montenegro_MLBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Montenegro_MLBA

Montenegro (Middle–Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Montenegro_MLBA), with 6 samples from Montenegro, dated to c. 1350–1140 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Albania (Bronze Age–Iron Age), Macedonia (Iron Age) and Cetina (Middle Bronze Age, Croatia); the nearest living populations are Italian Bergamo, Italian Veneto and Italian Piedmont.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2b (4); its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a (2), H7c, K2a and U4b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1350–1140 BCE
Country: Montenegro
Sampled near: Velika Gruda 42.38, 18.74
Samples: 6
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Montenegro_MLBA

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	Albania (Bronze Age–Iron Age)`Albania_BA_IA`	1.57
2	Macedonia (Iron Age)`Macedonia_IA`	1.73
3	Cetina (Middle Bronze Age, Croatia)`Croatia_MBA_Cetina`	1.80
4	Croatia (Middle Bronze Age) · Croatia_MBA`Croatia_MBA`	1.84
5	Montenegro (Late Bronze Age)`MNE_LBA`	2.09
6	Croatia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)`Croatia_LBA_EIA`	2.25
7	Croatia (Bronze Age)`Croatia_BA`	2.25
8	Syrmian Srem Group (Iron Age, Hungary)`Hungary_IA_Syrmian_SremGroup`	2.35
9	EMedieval Alemanic SEurope (Medieval, Germany)`Germany_EMedieval_Alemanic_SEurope`	2.45
10	Albania (Iron Age)`Albania_IA`	2.47

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Italian Bergamo`Italian_Bergamo`	2.09
2	Italian Veneto`Italian_Veneto`	2.13
3	Italian Piedmont`Italian_Piedmont`	2.20
4	Italian Lombardy`Italian_Lombardy`	2.31
5	Italian Emilia`Italian_Emilia`	2.39
6	Swiss Italian`Swiss_Italian`	2.46
7	Italian Trentino Alto Adige`Italian_Trentino_Alto_Adige`	2.51
8	Italian Trentino-Alto-Adige`Italian_Trentino-Alto-Adige`	2.55
9	Italian Tuscany`Italian_Tuscany`	2.70
10	Italian Northeast`Italian_Northeast`	2.86

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

J2b2a1 J-L283 2
J2b2a1a1a1 J-Z2507
J2b2a1a1a1a1a1b J-Y21878

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 10

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. 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
`I13167`	M	1216-1052 calBCE	Velika Gruda	J2b2a1a1a1a1a1b J-Y21878	U5a1g
`I13168`	F	1416-1271 calBCE	Velika Gruda		K2a
`I13169`	M	1407-1271 calBCE	Velika Gruda	J2b2a1 J-L283	U5a2d
`I13775`	M	1450-1250 BCE	Velika Gruda	J2b2a1a1a1 J-Z2507	U4b1a1a1
`I14498`	M	1300-1000 BCE	Velika Gruda	J2b2a1 J-L283	W
`I14501`	F	1450-1000 BCE	Velika Gruda		H7c2
`I13171` outlier	F	1450-1000 BCE	Velika Gruda		J1b1a1
`I13172` outlier	F	1380-1132 calBCE	Velika Gruda		H
`I13778` outlier	M	1386-1212 calBCE	Velika Gruda	J2b2a1a1a1a1a J-Z1297	H1
`I14500` outlier	F	1300-1000 BCE	Velika Gruda		H1at