Ancient population · Bronze Age
Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Switzerland)
Switzerland_BellBeaker
Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Switzerland) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Switzerland_BellBeaker), with 2 samples from Switzerland, dated to c. 2220 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Hungary) · Hungary_EBA_BellBeaker, Grand Est IA1 (Iron Age, France) and Switzerland (Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are French Auvergne, French Occitanie and Swiss German.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include K2b and U2e.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2220 BCE
- Country
- Switzerland
- Sampled near
- Sion-Petit-Chasseur 46.23, 7.35
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- OlaldeReichNature2018
- Catalogue
Switzerland_BellBeaker
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 | Bell Beaker (Early Bronze Age, Hungary) · Hungary_EBA_BellBeakerHungary_EBA_BellBeaker | 2.45 |
| 2 | Grand Est IA1 (Iron Age, France)France_GrandEst_IA1 | 2.54 |
| 3 | Switzerland (Early Bronze Age)CHE_EBA | 2.80 |
| 4 | Alt Inden Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_AltInden_Saxon_EMedieval | 2.82 |
| 5 | Lech (Early Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_Lech_EBA | 2.83 |
| 6 | Visigoth (Medieval, Spain)Spain_Visigoth | 2.94 |
| 7 | Sarrebourg Late Antiquity (Antiquity, France)France_Sarrebourg_LateAntiquity | 3.02 |
| 8 | High EEF (Middle Bronze Age, England)England_MBA_highEEF | 3.03 |
| 9 | Croatia (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Croatia_MLBA | 3.03 |
| 10 | La Tene low res (Iron Age)IA_La_Tene_low_res | 3.06 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | French AuvergneFrench_Auvergne | 2.56 |
| 2 | French OccitanieFrench_Occitanie | 2.64 |
| 3 | Swiss GermanSwiss_German | 2.75 |
| 4 | Swiss FrenchSwiss_French | 2.85 |
| 5 | French NordFrench_Nord | 2.96 |
| 6 | Spanish PenedesSpanish_Penedes | 2.98 |
| 7 | Spanish Camp de TarragonaSpanish_Camp_de_Tarragona | 3.00 |
| 8 | Belgian CBelgianC | 3.04 |
| 9 | French AlsaceFrench_Alsace | 3.11 |
| 10 | French ParisFrench_Paris | 3.26 |
Haplogroups
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.