Ancient population · Bronze Age

Sintashta (Middle–Late Bronze Age)

Sintashta_MLBA

Sintashta (Middle–Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sintashta_MLBA), with 1 sample from Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, dated to c. 1870 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Srubnaya Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age), Srubnaya Alakul (Bronze Age, Russia) and Srubnaya (Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Swedish and Finnish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a.

Date
c. 1870 BCE
Country
Russia
Origin
Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
Sampled near
Kamenny-Ambar-5 52.82, 60.47
Samples
1
Catalogue
Sintashta_MLBA_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
#PopulationDistance
1Srubnaya Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Srubnaya_Alakul_MLBA2.29
2Srubnaya Alakul (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Srubnaya_Alakul2.50
3Srubnaya (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Srubnaya2.57
4Aktogai (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_MLBA_Aktogai2.69
5Maitan Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Maitan_MLBA_Alakul2.85
6Sintashta (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MLBA_Sintashta2.86
7Kairan (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_MLBA_Kairan2.95
8Krasnoyarsk (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MLBA_Krasnoyarsk2.98
9Corded Ware 3 (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_CordedWare_32.99
10Kyzlbulak MLBA1 (Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Kyzlbulak_MLBA13.01
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Czech ModernCzech_Modern6.19
2SwedishSwedish6.87
3FinnishFinnish6.98
4Finnish SouthwestFinnish_Southwest7.03
5Finnish CentralFinnish_Central7.06
6ErzyaErzya7.09
7MokshaMoksha7.09
8MordovianMordovian7.17
9IngrianIngrian7.23
10NorwegianNorwegian7.24

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNA
I0987M2050-1700 BCEKamenny-Ambar-5R1a1a1 R-M417