Ancient population · Bronze Age
Portugal (Middle Bronze Age)
Portugal_MBA
Portugal (Middle Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Portugal_MBA), with 4 samples from Portugal, dated to c. 1600 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Almoloya Argar (Bronze Age, Spain), SE Cabezo Redondo (Bronze Age, Spain) and SE Iberia Valencian (Bronze Age, Spain); the nearest living populations are Basque Soule, Basque Navarre North and Basque Spanish.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include U5b (2), H1 and X2b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1600 BCE
- Country
- Portugal
- Sampled near
- Torre Velha 3 37.60, -8.22
- Sites
- Torre Velha 3 (2)
Monte do Gato de Cima 3
Monte do Vale do Ouro 2 - Samples
- 4
- Published in
- MartinianoBradleyPLosGenet2017
- Catalogue
Portugal_MBA.SGvariant
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 | Almoloya Argar (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Almoloya_Argar | 1.73 |
| 2 | SE Cabezo Redondo (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_SE_CabezoRedondo_BA | 1.83 |
| 3 | SE Iberia Valencian (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_SE_Iberia_BA_Valencian | 1.90 |
| 4 | Almoloya Argar Early (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Almoloya_Argar_Early | 2.03 |
| 5 | Almoloya Argar Late (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Almoloya_Argar_Late | 2.07 |
| 6 | Iberia Argar Almoloya Early (Bronze Age)Iberia_Argar_Almoloya_Early | 2.15 |
| 7 | Bastida Argar (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Bastida_Argar | 2.22 |
| 8 | Gibraltar (Early Bronze Age)Gibraltar_EBA | 2.27 |
| 9 | Spain (Early Bronze Age)Spain_EBA | 2.32 |
| 10 | Spain (Bronze Age)Spain_BA | 2.39 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basque SouleBasque_Soule | 3.95 |
| 2 | Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North | 3.98 |
| 3 | Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish | 4.16 |
| 4 | Basque Lower NavarreBasque_Lower_Navarre | 4.21 |
| 5 | Basque GipuzkoaBasque_Gipuzkoa | 4.25 |
| 6 | Basque BaztanBasque_Baztan | 4.25 |
| 7 | Basque Navarre CenterBasque_Navarre_Center | 4.26 |
| 8 | Basque RoncalBasque_Roncal | 4.40 |
| 9 | Basque Gipuzkoa SouthwestBasque_Gipuzkoa_Southwest | 4.42 |
| 10 | Basque FrenchBasque_French | 4.43 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MonteGato104_noUDG.SG | M | 1728-1520 calBCE | Monte do Gato de Cima 3 | R1b1a1b1a1a1c2b R-L48 | U5b3 |
TV32032extra_noUDG.SG | M | 1800-1400 BCE | Torre Velha 3 | R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-FGC40678 | X2b |
TV3831_noUDG.SG | M | 1800-1400 BCE | Torre Velha 3 | R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151 | H1 |
ValeOuro10207_noUDG.SG | F | 1800-1400 BCE | Monte do Vale do Ouro 2 | U5b1 |