Ancient population · Bronze Age

Petrovka (Bronze Age, Russia)

Russia_Petrovka

Petrovka (Bronze Age, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Petrovka), with 1 sample from Russia, dated to c. 1950 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Battle Axe (Bronze Age), Xinjiang Wutulan Andronovo (Late Bronze Age, China) and Slovakia (Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Norwegian and Swedish.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a.

Date
c. 1950 BCE
Country
Russia
Sampled near
Stepnoe-7 53.88, 59.08
Samples
1
Published in
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue
Russia_Petrovka

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
1Battle Axe (Bronze Age)Battle_Axe3.83
2Xinjiang Wutulan Andronovo (Late Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Wutulan_LBA_Andronovo3.86
3Slovakia (Early Bronze Age)SVK_EBA4.19
4Fatyanovo Moscow (Bronze Age)Fatyanovo_Moscow_BA4.34
5Sintashta (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MLBA_Sintashta4.38
6BAC (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_BAC4.42
7Maitan Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Maitan_MLBA_Alakul4.43
8Netherlands (Early Bronze Age)Netherlands_EBA4.44
9Yaroslavl Fatyanovo (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Yaroslavl_Fatyanovo_BA4.45
10Fatyanovo Yaroslavl (Bronze Age)Fatyanovo_Yaroslavl_BA4.46
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Czech ModernCzech_Modern4.98
2NorwegianNorwegian6.16
3SwedishSwedish6.19
4DanishDanish6.32
5IcelandicIcelandic6.35
6IrishIrish6.51
7ShetlandicShetlandic6.51
8ScottishScottish6.64
9DutchDutch6.65
10OrcadianOrcadian6.68

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
I0945F2200-1700 BCEStepnoe-7U5a1i1