Ancient population · Bronze Age
Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age–Late Bronze Age)
Netherlands_MBA_LBA
Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age–Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Netherlands_MBA_LBA), with 2 samples from Netherlands, dated to c. 1250–1150 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Middle Bronze Age), Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age) and Ireland (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Icelandic and Danish.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include J2b and T2e.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1250–1150 BCE
- Country
- Netherlands
- Sampled near
- Hoogkarspel-Houterpolder-West 52.70, 5.15
- Sites
- Hoogkarspel-Houterpolder-West
Westwoud-Markerwaardweg - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Netherlands_MBA_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 | Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)Scotland_MBA | 2.03 |
| 2 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 2.14 |
| 3 | Ireland (Bronze Age)IRL_BA | 2.17 |
| 4 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 2.19 |
| 5 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, France)France_BellBeaker | 2.31 |
| 6 | Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)Scotland_MIA_LIA | 2.38 |
| 7 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England)England_BellBeaker | 2.40 |
| 8 | Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval)Viking_Age_Pre_Christian | 2.41 |
| 9 | Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_MBA | 2.43 |
| 10 | Halberstadt (Late Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_LBA_Halberstadt | 2.44 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NorwegianNorwegian | 3.25 |
| 2 | IcelandicIcelandic | 3.46 |
| 3 | DanishDanish | 3.48 |
| 4 | IrishIrish | 3.54 |
| 5 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 3.66 |
| 6 | SwedishSwedish | 3.74 |
| 7 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.78 |
| 8 | ScottishScottish | 3.81 |
| 9 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.84 |
| 10 | DutchDutch | 3.95 |
Haplogroups
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.