Ancient population · Neolithic
Romania (Early Neolithic)
Romania_EN
Romania (Early Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Romania_EN), with 2 samples from Romania, dated to c. 5660–5420 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Lepenski Vir (Early Neolithic, Serbia), Nea Nikomedeia (Early Neolithic, Greece) and Lepenski Vir (Early–Middle Neolithic, Serbia); the nearest living populations are Macedonia N, Bulgaria N and Romania N.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c and K1a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 5660–5420 BCE
- Country
- Romania
- Sampled near
- Cârcea 44.87, 25.45
- Sites
- Cârcea
Coțatcu - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- MathiesonReichNature2018
- Catalogue
Romania_EN
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 | Lepenski Vir (Early Neolithic, Serbia)Serbia_LepenskiVir_EN | 2.10 |
| 2 | Nea Nikomedeia (Early Neolithic, Greece)Greece_NeaNikomedeia_EN | 2.10 |
| 3 | Lepenski Vir (Early–Middle Neolithic, Serbia)Serbia_LepenskiVir_EMN | 2.22 |
| 4 | Sopot (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)Croatia_MN_Sopot | 2.30 |
| 5 | Cardial (Neolithic, Croatia)Croatia_N_Cardial | 2.35 |
| 6 | Saxony LBK (Neolithic, Germany)Germany_Saxony_LBK_N | 2.39 |
| 7 | Marmara Barcin (Neolithic)Marmara_Barcin_N | 2.49 |
| 8 | Grotta Continenza (Neolithic)Grotta_Continenza_N | 2.51 |
| 9 | Koros (Early Neolithic, Hungary)Hungary_EN_Koros | 2.51 |
| 10 | South (Neolithic, Italy)Italy_South_N | 2.57 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macedonia NMacedonia_N | 2.35 |
| 2 | Bulgaria NBulgaria_N | 2.64 |
| 3 | Romania NRomania_N | 2.76 |
| 4 | Croatia NCroatia_N | 4.60 |
| 5 | SardinianSardinian | 8.44 |
| 6 | Sardinia NSardinia_N | 9.30 |
| 7 | French CorsicaFrench_Corsica | 13.22 |
| 8 | Italian LazioItalian_Lazio | 13.66 |
| 9 | Belmonte JewBelmonte_Jew | 13.69 |
| 10 | Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria | 13.76 |
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.