Ancient population · Bronze Age
Africa (Early Bronze Age, Spain)
Spain_EBA_Africa
Africa (Early Bronze Age, Spain) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Spain_EBA_Africa), with 1 sample from Spain, dated to c. 1810 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Portugal (Middle Bronze Age), Iberia North (Bronze Age) and Gibraltar (Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Spanish La Rioja, Spanish Asturias and Spanish Andalucia.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is T2e.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1810 BCE
- Country
- Spain
- Sampled near
- Loma del Puerco 36.34, -6.16
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- AkbariReichNature2026
- Catalogue
Spain_EBA_Africa
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 | Portugal (Middle Bronze Age)Portugal_MBA | 3.79 |
| 2 | Iberia North (Bronze Age)Iberia_North_BA | 3.84 |
| 3 | Gibraltar (Early Bronze Age)Gibraltar_EBA | 3.89 |
| 4 | Iberia SE La Horna (Bronze Age)Iberia_SE_BA_LaHorna | 3.95 |
| 5 | Almoloya Argar (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Almoloya_Argar | 4.02 |
| 6 | Spain (Bronze Age)Spain_BA | 4.25 |
| 7 | SE Iberia Argar (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_SE_Iberia_BA_Argar | 4.42 |
| 8 | Almoloya Argar Late (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Almoloya_Argar_Late | 4.49 |
| 9 | Almoloya Argar Early (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_Almoloya_Argar_Early | 4.50 |
| 10 | SE Iberia Valencian (Bronze Age, Spain)Spain_SE_Iberia_BA_Valencian | 4.52 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish La RiojaSpanish_La_Rioja | 5.40 |
| 2 | Spanish AsturiasSpanish_Asturias | 5.44 |
| 3 | Spanish AndaluciaSpanish_Andalucia | 5.48 |
| 4 | Basque SouleBasque_Soule | 5.52 |
| 5 | Basque Navarre CenterBasque_Navarre_Center | 5.53 |
| 6 | Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish | 5.62 |
| 7 | Spanish CantabriaSpanish_Cantabria | 5.63 |
| 8 | Basque Lower NavarreBasque_Lower_Navarre | 5.65 |
| 9 | Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North | 5.70 |
| 10 | Spanish NavarraSpanish_Navarra | 5.73 |
Haplogroups
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 | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I7162 | F | 1881-1744 calBCE | Loma del Puerco | T2e |