Ancient population · Iron Age

La Tene (Late Iron Age, Slovakia)

Name: La Tene (Late Iron Age, Slovakia) (Slovakia_LIA_LaTene)
Creator: Genoplot

Slovakia_LIA_LaTene

La Tene (Late Iron Age, Slovakia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Slovakia_LIA_LaTene), with 2 samples from Slovakia, dated to c. 100–60 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sarrebourg Late Antiquity (Antiquity, France), Knoviz (Late Bronze Age, Czech) and Hallstatt (Iron Age, Czech); the nearest living populations are French Occitanie, French Nord and Belgian C.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include HV0a and V18a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 100–60 BCE
Country: Slovakia
Sampled near: Bratislava-Castle 48.14, 17.10
Samples: 2
Published in: PattersonReichNature2021
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue: Slovakia_LIA_LaTene

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	Sarrebourg Late Antiquity (Antiquity, France)`France_Sarrebourg_LateAntiquity`	1.50
2	Knoviz (Late Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_LBA_Knoviz`	1.84
3	Hallstatt (Iron Age, Czech)`Czech_IA_Hallstatt`	2.01
4	Metz Gallo Roman (Antiquity, France)`France_Metz_GalloRoman`	2.05
5	Tumulus (Middle Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_MBA_Tumulus`	2.08
6	Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Hungary) · Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker`Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker`	2.14
7	High EEF (Early Iron Age, England)`England_EIA_highEEF`	2.14
8	Lech (Early Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_Lech_EBA`	2.18
9	Hassleben Germanic (Antiquity, Germany)`Germany_Hassleben_Germanic`	2.22
10	Hungary (Late Bronze Age) · Hungary_LBA`Hungary_LBA`	2.26

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	French Occitanie`French_Occitanie`	1.68
2	French Nord`French_Nord`	1.85
3	Belgian C`BelgianC`	1.86
4	French Auvergne`French_Auvergne`	1.91
5	French Alsace`French_Alsace`	1.99
6	Swiss German`Swiss_German`	2.00
7	French Paris`French_Paris`	2.15
8	Belgian B`BelgianB`	2.29
9	Belgian`Belgian`	2.30
10	Belgian A`BelgianA`	2.57

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a2a1b3 R-BY3268
R1b1a1b1a1a2b1c1b R-BY33535

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

HV0a
V18a

Individuals 4

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	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I11712`	M	151 calBCE - 8 calCE	Bratislava-Castle	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1c1b R-BY33535	HV0a
`I11713`	M	200-1 BCE	Bratislava-Castle	R1b1a1b1a1a2a1b3 R-BY3268	V18a
`I11715` outlier	M	200-1 BCE	Bratislava-Castle	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-MF100284	V
`I11716` outlier	F	167-46 calBCE	Pálffy-Palace		H55