Ancient population · Bronze Age

Arman (Bronze Age, Romania)

Romania_BA_Arman

Arman (Bronze Age, Romania) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Romania_BA_Arman), with 6 samples from Romania, dated to c. 2010–1980 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Vatya (Middle Bronze Age), Vatya (Middle Bronze Age, Hungary) and Roman (Antiquity, Germany) · DEU_Roman; the nearest living populations are Spanish Catalunya Central, Spanish Pirineu and Spanish Camp de Tarragona.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I2a (2) and I; its mtDNA haplogroups include H, H1, H11a and J1c.

Date
c. 2010–1980 BCE
Country
Romania
Sampled near
CRL-Arman 45.23, 26.68
Samples
6
Published in
AkbariReichNature2026
LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue
Romania_BA_Arman

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
1Vatya (Middle Bronze Age)MBA_Vatya3.24
2Vatya (Middle Bronze Age, Hungary)Hungary_MBA_Vatya3.25
3Roman (Antiquity, Germany) · DEU_RomanDEU_Roman3.58
4La Tene (Iron Age, Hungary) · Hungary_IA_LaTeneHungary_IA_LaTene3.67
5Roman (Antiquity, Germany) · Germany_RomanGermany_Roman3.74
6Tuscany Pisa Etruscan (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Tuscany_Pisa_Etruscan3.79
7Mokrin Maros (Early Bronze Age, Serbia)Serbia_Mokrin_EBA_Maros3.80
8Maros (Bronze Age, Serbia)Serbia_BA_Maros3.83
9NE Iberia (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_NE_Iberia_BA3.94
10Hungary (Late Bronze Age) · Hungary_LBAHungary_LBA3.96
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Spanish Catalunya CentralSpanish_Catalunya_Central4.00
2Spanish PirineuSpanish_Pirineu4.05
3Spanish Camp de TarragonaSpanish_Camp_de_Tarragona4.06
4Spanish CastelloSpanish_Castello4.12
5Spanish La RiojaSpanish_La_Rioja4.17
6Spanish Peri-BarcelonaSpanish_Peri-Barcelona4.28
7French SouthFrench_South4.37
8Spanish MenorcaSpanish_Menorca4.38
9Spanish BarcelonesSpanish_Barcelones4.38
10Spanish CatalunaSpanish_Cataluna4.38

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 6

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I10479M2113-1896 calBCECRL-ArmanI2a1a2b1a I-CTS4002J1c
I10480M2035-1900 calBCECRL-ArmanI2a1b1a2 I-L701U5a1a1
I10481M2150-1850 BCECRL-ArmanI IH
I10483F2150-1850 BCECRL-ArmanH1
I10558F2129-1940 calBCECRL-ArmanH11a2
I10562F2150-1850 BCECRL-ArmanK1c1