Ancient population · Bronze Age

Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)

Name: Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia) (Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya)
Creator: Genoplot

Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya

Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya), with 9 samples from Russia, dated to c. 3130–2830 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (7); its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a (2), H13a, H2a and H6a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 3130–2830 BCE
Country: Russia
Sampled near: Lopatino 53.15, 51.43
Sites: Lopatino (4)
Ekaterinovskiy-Mys
Ishkinovka-1
Kutuluk
Luzkhi-1
and 1 more
Samples: 9
Published in: MathiesonReichNature2015
PattersonReichNature2021
AkbariReichNature2026
NarasimhanReichScience2019
Catalogue: Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya

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	Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_MBA_Poltavka`	1.30
2	Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Afanasievo`	1.69
3	Kalmykia Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Kalmykia_EBA_Yamnaya`	1.76
4	Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia)`Yamnaya_RUS_Kalmykia`	1.81
5	Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA`	1.87
6	Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Steppe_Catacomb`	2.20
7	Afanasievo 1 (Chalcolithic, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Chalcolithic_Afanasievo_1`	2.35
8	Yamnaya Karagash (Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)`Yamnaya_KAZ_Karagash`	2.48
9	Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_EBA_Yamnaya`	2.84
10	Potapovka (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_MLBA_Potapovka`	2.98

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Finnish Central`Finnish_Central`	12.86
2	Finnish East`Finnish_East`	12.88
3	Erzya`Erzya`	12.92
4	Ingrian`Ingrian`	12.93
5	Finnish Southeast`Finnish_Southeast`	12.97
6	Mordovian`Mordovian`	12.99
7	Russian Kostroma`Russian_Kostroma`	13.05
8	Russian Leshukonsky`Russian_Leshukonsky`	13.05
9	Finnish`Finnish`	13.07
10	Karelian`Karelian`	13.10

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

7 men with a call

R1b1a1b1b3 R-Y20993 4
R1b1a1b R-M269 2
R1b1a1 R-P297

mtDNA

9 individuals with a call

Individuals 9

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I0231`	M	2911-2881 calBCE	Ekaterinovskiy-Mys	R1b1a1b1b3 R-Y20993	U4a1
`I0357`	F	3093-2911 calBCE	Lopatino		W6c
`I0370`	M	3300-2500 BCE	Ishkinovka-1	R1b1a1b R-M269	H13a1a1
`I0429`	M	3339-2916 calBCE	Lopatino	R1b1a1b1b3 R-Y20993	T2c1a2
`I0438`	M	3020-2631 calBCE	Luzkhi-1	R1b1a1b1b3 R-Y20993	U5a1a1
`I0439`	M	3322-2921 calBCE	Lopatino	R1b1a1 R-P297	U5a1a1
`I0443`	M	3331-2930 calBCE	Lopatino	R1b1a1b R-M269	W3a1a
`I0444`	M	3335-2883 calBCE	Kutuluk	R1b1a1b1b3 R-Y20993	H6a1b
`I7489`	F	3326-2926 calBCE	Utyovka-5		H2a1e