Ancient population · Bronze Age
Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)
Sweden_BattleAxe
Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sweden_BattleAxe), with 1 sample from Sweden, dated to c. 2540 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Djursland SGC, Gjerrild SGC low res and Chopice Vesele Culture (Bronze Age, Poland); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Danish and Icelandic.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is K1a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2540 BCE
- Country
- Sweden
- Sampled near
- Viby 56.02, 14.23
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- AllentoftWillerslevNature2015
- Catalogue
Sweden_BattleAxe.SGvariant
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 | Djursland SGCDjursland_SGC | 2.39 |
| 2 | Gjerrild SGC low resGjerrild_SGC_low_res | 2.51 |
| 3 | Chopice Vesele Culture (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_ChopiceVeseleCulture | 2.51 |
| 4 | Djursland Single Grave Culture (Bronze Age, Denmark)Denmark_Djursland_SingleGraveCulture | 2.51 |
| 5 | Battle Axe (Bronze Age)Battle_Axe | 2.53 |
| 6 | Fatyanovo Yaroslavl (Bronze Age)Fatyanovo_Yaroslavl_BA | 2.94 |
| 7 | Unetice pre C (Bronze Age)Unetice_preC | 2.95 |
| 8 | Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_EBA_Unetice | 2.96 |
| 9 | Czech (Early Bronze Age)Czech_EBA | 3.03 |
| 10 | Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Netherlands)Netherlands_BellBeaker | 3.10 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 4.66 |
| 2 | DanishDanish | 4.88 |
| 3 | IcelandicIcelandic | 4.90 |
| 4 | SwedishSwedish | 4.90 |
| 5 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 4.93 |
| 6 | NorwegianNorwegian | 4.96 |
| 7 | IrishIrish | 5.04 |
| 8 | DutchDutch | 5.08 |
| 9 | ScottishScottish | 5.14 |
| 10 | OrcadianOrcadian | 5.15 |
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.