Ancient population · Bronze Age
Alexandria (Middle Bronze Age, Ukraine)
Ukraine_Alexandria_MBA
Alexandria (Middle Bronze Age, Ukraine) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ukraine_Alexandria_MBA), with 1 sample from Ukraine, dated to c. 2030 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Maitan Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan), Sintashta (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia) and Aktogai (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Swedish and Norwegian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is H2a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2030 BCE
- Country
- Ukraine
- Sampled near
- Оleksandria 49.54, 37.70
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- MathiesonReichNature2018
- Catalogue
Ukraine_Alexandria_MBA
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 | Maitan Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Maitan_MLBA_Alakul | 2.63 |
| 2 | Sintashta (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MLBA_Sintashta | 2.69 |
| 3 | Aktogai (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_MLBA_Aktogai | 2.71 |
| 4 | Kairan (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_MLBA_Kairan | 2.91 |
| 5 | Fatyanovo Yaroslavl (Bronze Age)Fatyanovo_Yaroslavl_BA | 2.98 |
| 6 | Srubnaya (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Srubnaya | 3.15 |
| 7 | Krasnoyarsk (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MLBA_Krasnoyarsk | 3.27 |
| 8 | Srubnaya Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Srubnaya_Alakul_MLBA | 3.29 |
| 9 | Chopice Vesele Culture (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_ChopiceVeseleCulture | 3.30 |
| 10 | Fatyanovo Moscow (Bronze Age)Fatyanovo_Moscow_BA | 3.32 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 5.93 |
| 2 | SwedishSwedish | 6.18 |
| 3 | NorwegianNorwegian | 6.35 |
| 4 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 6.38 |
| 5 | IcelandicIcelandic | 6.43 |
| 6 | DanishDanish | 6.50 |
| 7 | German HamburgGerman_Hamburg | 6.53 |
| 8 | IrishIrish | 6.60 |
| 9 | ScottishScottish | 6.67 |
| 10 | OrcadianOrcadian | 6.69 |
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.