Ancient population · Bronze Age

Romania 1 (Bronze Age)

Romania_BA_1

Romania 1 (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Romania_BA_1), with 2 samples from Romania, dated to c. 2960–2510 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Malak Preslavets (Neolithic, Bulgaria), Arman (Bronze Age, Romania) and Occitanie (Early–Middle Bronze Age, France); the nearest living populations are French Bigorre, Spanish La Rioja and French Chalosse.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include U4a and U5a.

Date
c. 2960–2510 BCE
Country
Romania
Sampled near
Ploieşti-Triaj 44.90, 25.97
Sites
Ploieşti-Triaj
Târgșoru-Vechi
Samples
2
Catalogue
Romania_BA_1

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
#PopulationDistance
1Malak Preslavets (Neolithic, Bulgaria)Bulgaria_MalakPreslavets_N3.80
2Arman (Bronze Age, Romania)Romania_BA_Arman4.36
3Occitanie (Early–Middle Bronze Age, France)France_Occitanie_EMBA4.39
4Corded Ware no Steppe (Bronze Age, Czechia)Corded_Ware_CZE_noSteppe4.49
5Pian Sultano (Bronze Age, Italy)Italy_PianSultano_BA4.78
6Vatya (Middle Bronze Age)MBA_Vatya4.83
7Vatya (Middle Bronze Age, Hungary)Hungary_MBA_Vatya4.89
8Megalithic Ansarve (Bronze Age)Megalithic_Ansarve4.94
9Spain (Early Bronze Age)Spain_EBA4.95
10Portugal (Middle Bronze Age)Portugal_MBA4.96
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1French BigorreFrench_Bigorre5.85
2Spanish La RiojaSpanish_La_Rioja5.88
3French ChalosseFrench_Chalosse5.94
4Basque SouleBasque_Soule5.95
5Spanish PirineuSpanish_Pirineu5.99
6Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North6.05
7French SouthFrench_South6.09
8Basque RoncalBasque_Roncal6.10
9Spanish BarcelonesSpanish_Barcelones6.11
10Basque FrenchBasque_French6.16

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
I10494F3072-2901 calBCEPloieşti-TriajU5a2b
I7152F2574-2459 calBCETârgșoru-VechiU4a