Ancient population · Bronze Age
Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)
Netherlands_MBA
Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Netherlands_MBA), with 6 samples from Netherlands, dated to c. 1480–1320 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age), Pre Christian (Iceland) and Viking (Medieval, Norway); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include H2a, H3v, H5a and K1d.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1480–1320 BCE
- Country
- Netherlands
- Sampled near
- Wervershoof-Zwaagdijk 52.57, 5.01
- Sites
- Wervershoof-Zwaagdijk (2)
Westwoud-Binnenwijzend (2)
Hoogkarspel-Houterpolder-West
Vlaardingen-Krabbeplas - Samples
- 6
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Netherlands_MBA
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 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 1.17 |
| 2 | Pre Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Pre_Christian | 1.38 |
| 3 | Viking (Medieval, Norway)Norway_Viking | 1.39 |
| 4 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 1.44 |
| 5 | North VA (Medieval)North_VA | 1.50 |
| 6 | Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval)Viking_Age_Pre_Christian | 1.50 |
| 7 | Ireland (Bronze Age)IRL_BA | 1.50 |
| 8 | Viking (Medieval, Iceland)Iceland_Viking | 1.51 |
| 9 | South VA (Medieval)South_VA | 1.53 |
| 10 | Saxon (Early Medieval, England)England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon | 1.62 |
Haplogroups
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I11972 | M | 1501-1319 calBCE | Westwoud-Binnenwijzend | R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151 | U5b2b1 |
I11973 | F | 1415-1230 calBCE | Westwoud-Binnenwijzend | H5a1 | |
I12082 | F | 1450-1250 BCE | Hoogkarspel-Houterpolder-West | K1d | |
I17019 | M | 1421-1216 calBCE | Vlaardingen-Krabbeplas | R1b1a1b1a1a2e R-C111293 | T2b |
I26828 | F | 1600-1300 BCE | Wervershoof-Zwaagdijk | H2a2 | |
I26830 | M | 1620-1311 calBCE | Wervershoof-Zwaagdijk | R1b1a1b1a1a2e1 R-Y6234 | H3v |
I12081 outlier | F | 1391-1221 calBCE | Hoogkarspel-Houterpolder-West | U5a1c | |
I26829 outlier | M | 1600-1300 BCE | Wervershoof-Zwaagdijk | R1b1a1b1a R-BY161326 | H5b |
I26831 outlier | F | 1600-1300 BCE | Wervershoof-Zwaagdijk | U5a1a1 | |
I26832 outlier | F | 1600-1300 BCE | Wervershoof-Zwaagdijk | U4a3 |