Ancient population · Chalcolithic

MLN (Chalcolithic, Spain)

Name: MLN (Chalcolithic, Spain) (Spain_MLN)
Creator: Genoplot

Spain_MLN

MLN (Chalcolithic, Spain) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Spain_MLN), with 37 samples from Spain, dated to c. 4150–2860 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Portugal (Middle Neolithic), SE Iberia CA (Chalcolithic, Spain) and Portugal (Chalcolithic); the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Basque Soule.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I2a (16), G2a (4) and H2c (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include U5b (8), K1a (5), J1c (4) and J2a (2).

Period: Chalcolithic
Date: c. 4150–2860 BCE
Country: Spain
Sampled near: Cova de la Guineu 40.72, -1.04
Sites: Cova de la Guineu (9)
Les Llometes (8)
Mandubi Zelaia (5)
La Mina (4)
Campo de Hockey (3)
and 4 more
Samples: 37
Published in: Villalba-MoucoHaakCurrBiol2019
MathiesonReichNature2015
OlaldeReichScience2019
AkbariReichNature2026
LipsonReichNature2017
Catalogue: Spain_MLN

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	Portugal (Middle Neolithic)`Portugal_MN`	1.04
2	SE Iberia CA (Chalcolithic, Spain)`Spain_SE_Iberia_CA`	1.16
3	Portugal (Chalcolithic)`Portugal_C`	1.18
4	France (Neolithic)`France_N`	1.21
5	Spain (Chalcolithic)`Spain_C`	1.31
6	Iberia SW CA (Chalcolithic)`Iberia_SW_CA`	1.35
7	La Clape (Late Neolithic–Early–Middle Bronze Age, France)`France_LaClape_LN_EMBA`	1.41
8	Ireland (Middle Neolithic) · Ireland_MN`Ireland_MN`	1.49
9	SW Iberia CA (Chalcolithic, Spain)`Spain_SW_Iberia_CA`	1.60
10	Ireland (Late Neolithic)`Ireland_LN`	1.62

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	4.28
2	Sardinian`Sardinian`	5.79
3	Basque Soule`Basque_Soule`	9.39
4	Basque Navarre North`Basque_Navarre_North`	9.48
5	Basque Spanish`Basque_Spanish`	9.75
6	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	9.80
7	Basque Baztan`Basque_Baztan`	9.80
8	Basque Lower Navarre`Basque_Lower_Navarre`	9.85
9	Basque Navarre Center`Basque_Navarre_Center`	9.92
10	Basque Gipuzkoa`Basque_Gipuzkoa`	9.92

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

24 men with a call

I2a1b1b I-BY37400 8
G2a2a1a3 G-BY133179 3
H2c1a H-Y21592 3
I2a1a1a1 I-Y3992 3
G2a2b2b1a1a G-PF3378
I2a1a2 I-M423
I2a1a2a1a3 I-A10028
I2a1b I-M436
I2a1b1a2b2 I-L623
I2a1b1b1a1 I-Y34539
IJK IJK

mtDNA

36 individuals with a call

Individuals 37

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	mtDNA
`ELT002_merged`	M	3941-3660 calBCE	Cova de Els Trocs	I2a1a1a1 I-Y3992	J1c1b
`ELT006_merged`	M	3949-3715 calBCE	Cova de Els Trocs	I2a1a1a1 I-Z2049	U3a1
`I0405`	M	3900-3600 BCE	La Mina	H2c1a H-Y21592	K1a1b1
`I0406`	M	3900-3600 BCE	La Mina	I2a1b1a2b2 I-L623	H1
`I0407`	F	3900-3600 BCE	La Mina		K1b1a1
`I0408`	F	3895-3651 calBCE	La Mina		U5b1
`I10277`	M	3400-2500 BCE	Cova de la Guineu	I2a1a1a1 I-Z2049	X2c1
`I10278`	M	3400-2500 BCE	Cova de la Guineu	I2a1a2 I-M423	U5b1
`I10280`	M	3400-2500 BCE	Cova de la Guineu	G2a2b2b1a1a G-PF3378	J1c1
`I10283`	M	3400-2500 BCE	Cova de la Guineu	IJK IJK	H
`I10284`	M	3400-2500 BCE	Cova de la Guineu	I2a1b I-M436	U5b1
`I10285`	F	3400-2500 BCE	Cova de la Guineu		T2b
`I10287`	M	3400-2500 BCE	Cova de la Guineu	I2a1b1b1a1 I-Y34539	T2b3
`I11248`	M	3500-2700 BCE	Jentilarri	I2a1b1b I-BY37400	J2a1a1a
`I11249`	M	3500-2700 BCE	Jentilarri	I2a1b1b I-BY37400	U5b1
`I11301`	F	3500-2700 BCE	Jentilarri		H1j8
`I11305`	M	3400-2500 BCE	Cova de la Guineu	G2a2a1a3 G-BY133179	J1c1b
`I11306`	F	3400-2500 BCE	Cova de la Guineu		J2b1a2
`I3273`	F	3606-3363 calBCE	La Chabola de la Hechicera		J2a1a1
`I7549`	F	4300-3700 BCE	Campo de Hockey		K1a4a1
`I7550`	F	4700-3600 BCE	Campo de Hockey		K1b1a
`I7594`	F	3518-3371 calBCE	Les Llometes		U5b2b
`I7598`	M	3622-3375 calBCE	Les Llometes	G2a2a1a3 G-BY133179	U5b3
`I7600`	F	4000-3350 BCE	Les Llometes		K1a2a
`I7601`	M	3644-3528 calBCE	Les Llometes	G2a2a1a3 G-BY133179	X2b
`I7602`	M	3500-2700 BCE	Mandubi Zelaia	I2a1b1b I-BY37400	J1c1
`I7603`	M	3500-2700 BCE	Mandubi Zelaia	I2a1b1b I-PF692	K1a2b
`I7604`	M	3500-2700 BCE	Mandubi Zelaia	I2a1b1b I-PF692	H1ak
`I7605`	M	3500-2700 BCE	Mandubi Zelaia	I2a1b1b I-BY37400	H3
`I7606`	M	3500-2700 BCE	Mandubi Zelaia	I2a1b1b I-BY37400	U5b1
`I7642`	M	2909-2706 calBCE	Les Llometes	I2a1b1b I-PF692	J2b1a
`I7643`	M	3952-3713 calBCE	Les Llometes	H2c1a H-Y19962	K1a1b1
`I7644`	M	3635-3386 calBCE	Les Llometes	I2a1a2a1a3 I-A10028
`I7646`	F	3711-3540 calBCE	Les Llometes		H1e1c
`I8134`	F	4700-3600 BCE	Campo de Hockey		U5b3
`I8567`	M	3500-3300 BCE	La Coveta Emparetà	H2c1a H-BY87974	X2
`I8568`	F	3496-3355 calBCE	La Coveta Emparetà		X2b