Ancient population · Neolithic
Romania (Mesolithic–Neolithic)
Romania_Mesolithic_Neolithic
Romania (Mesolithic–Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Romania_Mesolithic_Neolithic), with 1 sample from Romania, dated to c. 270 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Multi Cordoned Ware (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova), Lithuania (Late Neolithic) and Xinjiang Kuokesuxi Andronovo (Late Bronze Age, China); the nearest living populations are Finnish Southeast, Czech Modern and Ingrian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is H15a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 270 BCE
- Country
- Romania
- Sampled near
- Trestiana 46.19, 27.67
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Romania_Mesolithic_Neolithic
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 | Multi Cordoned Ware (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova)Moldova_MBA_MultiCordonedWare | 3.32 |
| 2 | Lithuania (Late Neolithic)Lithuania_LN | 3.69 |
| 3 | Xinjiang Kuokesuxi Andronovo (Late Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Kuokesuxi_LBA_Andronovo | 4.12 |
| 4 | Moldova (Bronze Age)Moldova_BA | 4.14 |
| 5 | Kashkarchi (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Kashkarchi_BA | 4.19 |
| 6 | Kokcha (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Kokcha_BA | 4.25 |
| 7 | Karagash (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_MLBA_Karagash | 4.31 |
| 8 | Taldysay MLBA1 (Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Taldysay_MLBA1 | 4.38 |
| 9 | Corded Ware early (Bronze Age, Czechia)Corded_Ware_CZE_early | 4.39 |
| 10 | Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_CordedWare | 4.41 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast | 9.05 |
| 2 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 9.22 |
| 3 | IngrianIngrian | 9.30 |
| 4 | Finnish CentralFinnish_Central | 9.41 |
| 5 | FinnishFinnish | 9.42 |
| 6 | ErzyaErzya | 9.54 |
| 7 | Finnish EastFinnish_East | 9.61 |
| 8 | Russian KostromaRussian_Kostroma | 9.65 |
| 9 | MordovianMordovian | 9.72 |
| 10 | SwedishSwedish | 9.77 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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.