Ancient population · Bronze Age
Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Ukraine)
Ukraine_EBA_Yamnaya
Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Ukraine) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ukraine_EBA_Yamnaya), with 2 samples from Ukraine, dated to c. 2900 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia), Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia) and Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Erzya, Darginian and Akhvakh.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include H15b and T1a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2900 BCE
- Country
- Ukraine
- Sampled near
- Shevchenko 48.22, 37.15
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- MathiesonReichNature2018
PattersonReichNature2021 - Catalogue
Ukraine_EBA_Yamnaya
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 | Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Steppe_Catacomb | 2.81 |
| 2 | Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia)Yamnaya_RUS_Kalmykia | 2.95 |
| 3 | Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Afanasievo | 2.96 |
| 4 | Kalmykia Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Kalmykia_EBA_Yamnaya | 2.98 |
| 5 | Afanasievo 1 (Chalcolithic, Mongolia)Mongolia_Chalcolithic_Afanasievo_1 | 3.30 |
| 6 | Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya | 3.33 |
| 7 | Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MBA_Poltavka | 3.34 |
| 8 | Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA | 3.49 |
| 9 | Catacomb (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova)Moldova_MBA_Catacomb | 3.56 |
| 10 | Caucasus Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_EBA_Yamnaya | 3.74 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ErzyaErzya | 12.63 |
| 2 | DarginianDarginian | 12.64 |
| 3 | AkhvakhAkhvakh | 12.64 |
| 4 | MordovianMordovian | 12.65 |
| 5 | Russian LeshukonskyRussian_Leshukonsky | 12.68 |
| 6 | Russian KostromaRussian_Kostroma | 12.75 |
| 7 | MokshaMoksha | 12.80 |
| 8 | Finnish EastFinnish_East | 12.82 |
| 9 | Finnish CentralFinnish_Central | 12.84 |
| 10 | KomiKomi | 12.89 |
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.