Ancient population · Bronze Age

Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)

Name: Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia) (Russia_MBA_Poltavka)
Creator: Genoplot

Russia_MBA_Poltavka

Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_MBA_Poltavka), with 7 samples from Russia, dated to c. 2770–1930 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia), Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia) and Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Finnish East, Finnish Central and Ingrian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (6); its mtDNA haplogroups include H13a, H6a, T1a and U2d.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2770–1930 BCE
Country: Russia
Sampled near: Grachevka-2 52.41, 49.05
Sites: Grachevka-2 (2)
Nikolaevka-2 (2)
Kutuluk
Lopatino
Utyovka-6
Samples: 7
Published in: MathiesonReichNature2015
PattersonReichNature2021
NarasimhanReichScience2019
Catalogue: Russia_MBA_Poltavka
Russia_MBA_Poltavka_o2 outliers
Russia_MBA_Poltavka_oEEF outliers

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya`	1.30
2	Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Afanasievo`	1.83
3	Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia)`Yamnaya_RUS_Kalmykia`	1.93
4	Kalmykia Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Kalmykia_EBA_Yamnaya`	1.97
5	Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Steppe_Catacomb`	2.28
6	Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA`	2.48
7	Afanasievo 1 (Chalcolithic, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Chalcolithic_Afanasievo_1`	2.62
8	Potapovka (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_MLBA_Potapovka`	2.66
9	Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Poland)`Poland_CordedWare`	2.67
10	Corded Ware early (Bronze Age, Poland)`Corded_Ware_POL_early`	2.80

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Finnish East`Finnish_East`	12.16
2	Finnish Central`Finnish_Central`	12.17
3	Ingrian`Ingrian`	12.24
4	Erzya`Erzya`	12.32
5	Karelian`Karelian`	12.38
6	Mordovian`Mordovian`	12.38
7	Finnish`Finnish`	12.39
8	Russian Leshukonsky`Russian_Leshukonsky`	12.39
9	Russian Kostroma`Russian_Kostroma`	12.39
10	Finnish Southeast`Finnish_Southeast`	12.40

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

6 men with a call

R1b1a1b R-M269 4
R1b1a1b1b R-M12149
R1b1a1b1b3 R-Y20993

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 9

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I0126`	`Russia_MBA_Poltavka`	M	2867-2475 calBCE	Kutuluk	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	H6a2
`I0371`	`Russia_MBA_Poltavka`	M	2871-2581 calBCE	Grachevka-2	R1b1a1b R-M269	U2d2
`I0374`	`Russia_MBA_Poltavka`	M	2800-2000 BCE	Nikolaevka-2	R1b1a1b R-M269	H13a1a
`I0418`	`Russia_MBA_Poltavka`	F	2131-1767 calBCE	Utyovka-6		T1a1
`I0440`	`Russia_MBA_Poltavka`	M	2887-2636 calBCE	Lopatino	R1b1a1b1b3 R-Y20993
`I6294`	`Russia_MBA_Poltavka`	M	2877-2635 calBCE	Grachevka-2	R1b1a1b R-M269	U5a1g
`I8745`	`Russia_MBA_Poltavka`	M	2500-2200 BCE	Nikolaevka-2	R1b1a1b R-M269	U4b
`I0432` outlier	`Russia_MBA_Poltavka_oEEF`	M	2925-2491 calBCE	Potapovka-1	R1a1a1 R-Z93	U5a1c
`I7671` outlier	`Russia_MBA_Poltavka_o2`	M	2885-2674 calBCE	Bobrovka	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	U5a1b