Ancient population · Bronze Age

Gotland Ajvide Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)

Sweden_Gotland_Ajvide_PittedWare_BattleAxe

Gotland Ajvide Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sweden_Gotland_Ajvide_PittedWare_BattleAxe), with 2 samples from Sweden, dated to c. 2970–2880 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ajvide PWC BAC (Bronze Age), Gotland Hemmor Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden) and Gotland Hemmor Pitted Ware Battle Axe minus (Bronze Age, Sweden); the nearest living populations are Finnish Southeast, Estonian and Latvian.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include U4a and U5b.

Date
c. 2970–2880 BCE
Country
Sweden
Sampled near
Ajvide Settlement 57.28, 18.17
Samples
2
Catalogue
Sweden_Gotland_Ajvide_PittedWare_BattleAxe.SG 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
1Ajvide PWC BAC (Bronze Age)Ajvide_PWC_BAC0.75
2Gotland Hemmor Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Gotland_Hemmor_PittedWare_BattleAxe2.32
3Gotland Hemmor Pitted Ware Battle Axe minus (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Gotland_Hemmor_PittedWare_BattleAxe_minus2.40
4Gotland Vasterbjers Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Gotland_Vasterbjers_PittedWare_BattleAxe2.57
5PWC (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_PWC3.16
6PWC NHG (Bronze Age)PWC_NHG4.09
7Vasterbjers PWC BAC (Bronze Age)Vasterbjers_PWC_BAC4.41
8Ukraine (Eneolithic)Ukraine_Eneolithic8.26
9Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Estonia)Estonia_EMN_Narva8.41
10TGM (Mesolithic)Meso_TGM8.62
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast14.95
2EstonianEstonian15.00
3LatvianLatvian15.03
4Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ15.13
5IngrianIngrian15.24
6Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ15.28
7Finnish EastFinnish_East15.33
8FinnishFinnish15.34
9KarelianKarelian15.46
10Lithuanian VALithuanian_VA15.49

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
ajv28_noUDG.SGF3002-2705 calBCEAjvide SettlementU4a2
ajv36_noUDG.SGF3086-2899 calBCEAjvide SettlementU5b2a2