Ancient population · Bronze Age
Scotland (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)
Scotland_C_EBA
Scotland (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Scotland_C_EBA), with 4 samples from United Kingdom, dated to c. 2070–1690 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age), England (Middle Bronze Age) and Ireland (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Norwegian and Icelandic.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include T2a (3) and U4a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2070–1690 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Covesea Caves 57.29, -3.08
- Sites
- Covesea Caves
Dryburn Bridge
Perth and Kinross
Stenchme - Samples
- 4
- Published in
- OlaldeReichNature2018
- Catalogue
Scotland_C_EBAScotland_C_EBA_oEEFoutliers
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 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 1.70 |
| 2 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 1.89 |
| 3 | Ireland (Bronze Age)IRL_BA | 1.95 |
| 4 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, England)England_BellBeaker | 1.96 |
| 5 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 1.96 |
| 6 | Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_EBA_Unetice | 1.98 |
| 7 | Czech (Early Bronze Age)Czech_EBA | 2.01 |
| 8 | Unetice (Chalcolithic)Unetice_C | 2.08 |
| 9 | Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)Scotland_MBA | 2.12 |
| 10 | Switzerland 2 (Early Bronze Age)Switzerland_EBA_2 | 2.13 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I2567 | Scotland_C_EBA | M | 2190-1961 calBCE | Dryburn Bridge | R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2 | U4a1 |
I2981 | Scotland_C_EBA | F | 1880-1635 calBCE | Stenchme | T2a1b1a | |
I3132 | Scotland_C_EBA | M | 2126-1886 calBCE | Covesea Caves | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a R-BY79134 | T2a1b1a |
I5516 | Scotland_C_EBA | M | 1872-1547 calBCE | Perth and Kinross | R1b1a1b2a2a R-Y227216 | T2a1b1a1b |
I5515 outlier | Scotland_C_EBA_oEEF | M | 2112-1774 calBCE | Aberdour Road | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-Y31142 | H3 |