Ancient population · Bronze Age

Nuragic (Bronze Age, Sardinia)

Name: Nuragic (Bronze Age, Sardinia) (Sardinia_Nuragic)
Creator: Genoplot

Sardinia_Nuragic

Nuragic (Bronze Age, Sardinia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sardinia_Nuragic), with 4 samples from Sardinia, Italy, dated to c. 1390 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sardinia (Early Bronze Age, Italy), Sardinia Nuragic (Bronze Age, Italy) and GRG (Middle Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Croatia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is H3.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1390 BCE
Country: Italy
Origin: Sardinia, Italy
Sampled near: Anghelu Ruju 40.63, 8.32
Samples: 4
Published in: PattersonReichNature2021
Catalogue: Sardinia_Nuragic
Sardinia_Nuragic_contam variant

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	Sardinia (Early Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_EBA`	1.48
2	Sardinia Nuragic (Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_BA_Nuragic`	1.69
3	GRG (Middle Neolithic)`MN_GRG`	1.76
4	Sardinia (Late Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_LBA`	1.77
5	France (Middle Neolithic)`France_MN`	1.92
6	ECA (Sardinia)`Sardinia_ECA`	1.93
7	Sardinia (Middle Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_MBA`	1.94
8	SE Iberia CA (Chalcolithic, Spain)`Spain_SE_Iberia_CA`	1.98
9	Sardinia (Neolithic, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_N`	2.00
10	Sardinia (Late Chalcolithic, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_LateC`	2.05

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	3.24
2	Sardinian`Sardinian`	4.66
3	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	7.85
4	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	8.90
5	Romania N`Romania_N`	9.06
6	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	10.31
7	Basque Soule`Basque_Soule`	10.47
8	Basque Navarre North`Basque_Navarre_North`	10.66
9	Basque Spanish`Basque_Spanish`	10.85
10	Spanish La Rioja`Spanish_La_Rioja`	10.91

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

I2a1a1a1a1 I-L160

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 4

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	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I16170`	`Sardinia_Nuragic`	M	1491-1301 calBCE	Anghelu Ruju	I2a1a1a1a1 I-L160	H3
`MA110`	`Sardinia_Nuragic`			Sardinia, Italy
`MA82`	`Sardinia_Nuragic`			Sardinia, Italy
`SUA001`	`Sardinia_Nuragic_contam`			Sardinia, Italy