Ancient population · Bronze Age

Switzerland 2 (Early Bronze Age)

Name: Switzerland 2 (Early Bronze Age) (Switzerland_EBA_2)
Creator: Genoplot

Switzerland_EBA_2

Switzerland 2 (Early Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Switzerland_EBA_2), with 8 samples from Switzerland, dated to c. 2570–2110 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Czech), Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Poland) and Unetice (Chalcolithic); the nearest living populations are Dutch, Norwegian and Orcadian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I2a (2) and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c (2), H11a, H3 and J2b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2570–2110 BCE
Country: Switzerland
Sampled near: Spreitenbach CWC 47.30, 8.23
Sites: Spreitenbach CWC (7)
Zuzach
Samples: 8
Published in: FurtwänglerHerbigBioTechniques2020
Catalogue: Switzerland_EBA_2

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	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_BellBeaker`	1.09
2	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Poland)`Poland_BellBeaker`	1.19
3	Unetice (Chalcolithic)`Unetice_C`	1.38
4	Bell Beaker (Bronze Age, Germany)`Germany_BellBeaker`	1.47
5	Alberstedt (Late Neolithic, Germany)`Germany_LN_Alberstedt`	1.59
6	Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)`Czech_EBA_Unetice`	1.76
7	England (Late Bronze Age)`England_LBA`	1.78
8	England (Middle Bronze Age)`England_MBA`	1.80
9	Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)`Scotland_MBA`	1.83
10	England (Late Iron Age)`England_LIA`	1.98

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Dutch`Dutch`	2.43
2	Norwegian`Norwegian`	2.50
3	Orcadian`Orcadian`	2.52
4	Danish`Danish`	2.58
5	Scottish`Scottish`	2.61
6	Afrikaner`Afrikaner`	2.63
7	Welsh`Welsh`	2.71
8	German Hamburg`German_Hamburg`	2.73
9	Irish`Irish`	2.76
10	English`English`	2.82

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

I2a1a2 I-Y3104 2
R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2

mtDNA

8 individuals with a call

Individuals 11

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. 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
`MX188`	M	2566-2345 calBCE	Spreitenbach CWC	I2a1a2 I-Y3104	U2e2a1d
`MX189`	F	2199-2035 calBCE	Spreitenbach CWC		T2b
`MX191`	M	2837-2472 calBCE	Spreitenbach CWC	I2a1a2 I-Y3104	H3
`MX196`	F	2627-2470 calBCE	Spreitenbach CWC		J1c3
`MX197`	F	2557-2293 calBCE	Spreitenbach CWC		H11a
`MX198`	F	2861-2342 calBCE	Spreitenbach CWC		J1c4
`MX199`	F	2454-2147 calBCE	Spreitenbach CWC		J2b1a
`RA64`	M	2274-2041 calBCE	Zuzach	R1b1a1b1a1a2b1 R-L2	K1a1
`TU905_SX18` outlier	F	172 calBCE - 12 calCE	Wartau		B4c1b2c2
`TU907_SX20` outlier	M	1733-1542 calBCE	Wartau	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	K1a4a1
`TU911_SX23` outlier	F	1882-1746 calBCE	Wartau		X2b4