Ancient population · Bronze Age
Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age)
Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA
Mycenaean Palace of Nestor (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_BA), with 3 samples from Peloponnese, Greece, dated to c. 1320–1120 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily), Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece) and Bulgaria (Late Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Italian Calabria, Italian Apulia and Italian Campania.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (2) and G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H7, K1a and X.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1320–1120 BCE
- Country
- Greece
- Origin
- Peloponnese, Greece
- Sampled near
- Palace of Nestor 37.03, 21.69
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- AkbariReichNature2026
LazaridisReichScience2022 - Catalogue
Mycenaean_Palace_of_Nestor_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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Himera 480BCE 1 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_1 | 2.61 |
| 2 | Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean | 3.01 |
| 3 | Bulgaria (Late Iron Age)Bulgaria_LIA | 3.13 |
| 4 | Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE | 3.22 |
| 5 | Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)Bulgaria_EIA | 3.30 |
| 6 | Mycenaean in preparation (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_BA_Mycenaean_in.preparation | 3.61 |
| 7 | Bulgaria (Iron Age)Bulgaria_IA | 3.63 |
| 8 | Delphi Mycenaean (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Delphi_BA_Mycenaean | 3.67 |
| 9 | Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA | 3.99 |
| 10 | Bivio Roman (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Bivio_Roman | 4.08 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria | 4.51 |
| 2 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 4.54 |
| 3 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 4.55 |
| 4 | Sicilian EastSicilian_East | 4.63 |
| 5 | Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani | 4.68 |
| 6 | Italian BasilicataItalian_Basilicata | 4.70 |
| 7 | Greek ApuliaGreek_Apulia | 4.79 |
| 8 | Greek Cyclades TinosGreek_Cyclades_Tinos | 4.98 |
| 9 | Italian LazioItalian_Lazio | 5.02 |
| 10 | Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese | 5.04 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
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.