Ancient population · Bronze Age

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

Name: Gotland Vasterbjers Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden) (Sweden_Gotland_Vasterbjers_PittedWare_BattleAxe)
Creator: Genoplot

Sweden_Gotland_Vasterbjers_PittedWare_BattleAxe

Gotland Vasterbjers Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sweden_Gotland_Vasterbjers_PittedWare_BattleAxe), with 7 samples from Sweden, dated to c. 2980–2710 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I2a (2), CT and F; its mtDNA haplogroups include U5b (3), U4a (2), K1a and U5a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2980–2710 BCE
Country: Sweden
Sampled near: Västerbjers 57.58, 18.70
Samples: 7
Published in: CoutinhoJakobssonAJBA2020
Catalogue: Sweden_Gotland_Vasterbjers_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
#	Population	Distance
1	Gotland Hemmor Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)`Sweden_Gotland_Hemmor_PittedWare_BattleAxe`	2.03
2	Gotland Hemmor Pitted Ware Battle Axe minus (Bronze Age, Sweden)`Sweden_Gotland_Hemmor_PittedWare_BattleAxe_minus`	2.50
3	Ajvide PWC BAC (Bronze Age)`Ajvide_PWC_BAC`	2.55
4	Gotland Ajvide Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)`Sweden_Gotland_Ajvide_PittedWare_BattleAxe`	2.57
5	PWC (Bronze Age, Sweden)`Sweden_PWC`	2.70
6	PWC NHG (Bronze Age)`PWC_NHG`	2.72
7	Vasterbjers PWC BAC (Bronze Age)`Vasterbjers_PWC_BAC`	3.40
8	Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Estonia)`Estonia_EMN_Narva`	7.49
9	Ukraine (Eneolithic)`Ukraine_Eneolithic`	7.75
10	Ukraine (Neolithic)`Ukraine_N`	8.27

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Estonian`Estonian`	15.04
2	Latvian`Latvian`	15.05
3	Finnish Southeast`Finnish_Southeast`	15.13
4	Lithuanian SZ`Lithuanian_SZ`	15.15
5	Lithuanian PZ`Lithuanian_PZ`	15.21
6	Finnish East`Finnish_East`	15.22
7	Ingrian`Ingrian`	15.28
8	Finnish`Finnish`	15.28
9	Karelian`Karelian`	15.32
10	Finnish Central`Finnish_Central`	15.51

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

5 men with a call

CT CT
F F
I I
I2a1 I-P37
I2a1a1b1 I-FT344596

mtDNA

7 individuals with a call

Individuals 7

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
`vbj001.SG`	F	2879-2577 calBCE	Västerbjers		U4a2
`vbj004.SG`	F	2894-2583 calBCE	Västerbjers		U5b2a2
`vbj006.SG`	M	3022-2887 calBCE	Västerbjers	I2a1a1b1 I-FT344596	K1a3a
`vbj008.SG`	M	2880-2501 calBCE	Västerbjers	I2a1 I-P37	U5b1d2
`vbj012.SG`	M	3091-2903 calBCE	Västerbjers	CT CT	U5b2a2
`vbj013.SG`	M	2914-2697 calBCE	Västerbjers	I I	U4a2
`vbj018.SG`	M	3011-2878 calBCE	Västerbjers	F F	U5a2