Ancient population · Bronze Age
Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Scotland)
Scotland_BellBeaker
Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Scotland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_BellBeaker), with 2 samples from United Kingdom, dated to c. 2360–2280 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England), LNB Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Netherlands) and England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Norwegian, Icelandic and Swedish.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include H5 and V10.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2360–2280 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Achavanich 57.52, -4.93
- Sites
- Achavanich
Sorisdale - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- OlaldeReichNature2018
- Catalogue
Scotland_BellBeaker
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 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England)England_BellBeaker | 1.56 |
| 2 | LNB Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_LNB_EBA_BellBeaker | 1.74 |
| 3 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 1.84 |
| 4 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_BellBeaker | 1.87 |
| 5 | Czech (Early Bronze Age)Czech_EBA | 2.00 |
| 6 | Netherlands (Late Bronze Age)Netherlands_LBA | 2.08 |
| 7 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 2.16 |
| 8 | Scotland (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)Scotland_C_EBA | 2.16 |
| 9 | Unetice pre C (Bronze Age)Unetice_preC | 2.21 |
| 10 | Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_EBA_Unetice | 2.32 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NorwegianNorwegian | 3.20 |
| 2 | IcelandicIcelandic | 3.22 |
| 3 | SwedishSwedish | 3.30 |
| 4 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 3.54 |
| 5 | DanishDanish | 3.61 |
| 6 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.71 |
| 7 | IrishIrish | 3.76 |
| 8 | ScottishScottish | 3.89 |
| 9 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.95 |
| 10 | DutchDutch | 4.21 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.