Ancient population · Bronze Age

Sicily (Early Bronze Age)

Name: Sicily (Early Bronze Age) (Sicily_EBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Sicily_EBA

Sicily (Early Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sicily_EBA), with 1 sample from Sicily, Italy, dated to c. 2090 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Punic (Iron Age, Tunisia), Trypillia Late (Chalcolithic) and Sardinia Punic 2 (Iron Age, Italy); the nearest living populations are French Corsica, Italian Lazio and Italian Umbria.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2090 BCE
Country: Italy
Origin: Sicily, Italy
Sampled near: Grotta dell'Uzzo 38.11, 12.79
Samples: 1
Published in: YuKrauseiScience2022
Catalogue: Sicily_EBA

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	Punic (Iron Age, Tunisia)`Tunisia_Punic`	3.92
2	Trypillia Late (Chalcolithic)`Trypillia_Late`	4.01
3	Sardinia Punic 2 (Iron Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_2`	4.13
4	Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)`Sicily_Himera_409BCE`	4.19
5	Sardinia Sant Imbenia Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_SantImbenia_RomanImperial`	4.38
6	Sardinia 1 (Iron Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_IA_1`	4.45
7	North Bell Beaker 1 (Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_North_BellBeaker_1`	4.47
8	Lazio Viterbo Etruscan (Iron Age, Italy)`Italy_Lazio_Viterbo_Etruscan`	4.50
9	Sardinia Roman (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_Roman`	4.52
10	Sicily (Iron Age)`Sicily_IA`	4.61

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	4.47
2	Italian Lazio`Italian_Lazio`	5.19
3	Italian Umbria`Italian_Umbria`	5.30
4	Italian Tuscany`Italian_Tuscany`	5.57
5	Italian Lombardy`Italian_Lombardy`	5.63
6	Italian Marche`Italian_Marche`	5.69
7	Italian Molise`Italian_Molise`	5.83
8	Sardinian`Sardinian`	5.84
9	Italian Abruzzo`Italian_Abruzzo`	5.87
10	Italian Emilia`Italian_Emilia`	5.88

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1a R-L51

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA
`UZZ057`	M	2196-2031 calBCE	Grotta dell'Uzzo	R1b1a1b1a R-L51