Ancient population · Bronze Age
Ukraine (Early Bronze Age)
Ukraine_EBA
Ukraine (Early Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ukraine_EBA), with 1 sample from Ukraine, dated to c. 2780 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Gotland Vasterbjers Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden), Ajvide PWC BAC (Bronze Age) and Gotland Ajvide Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden); the nearest living populations are Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian SZ.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2780 BCE
- Country
- Ukraine
- Sampled near
- Deriivka 48.91, 33.76
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichNature2025
- Catalogue
Ukraine_EBA_oEuropeoutliers
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 | Gotland Vasterbjers Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Gotland_Vasterbjers_PittedWare_BattleAxe | 6.09 |
| 2 | Ajvide PWC BAC (Bronze Age)Ajvide_PWC_BAC | 6.27 |
| 3 | Gotland Ajvide Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Gotland_Ajvide_PittedWare_BattleAxe | 6.33 |
| 4 | PWC (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_PWC | 6.44 |
| 5 | Gotland Hemmor Pitted Ware Battle Axe minus (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Gotland_Hemmor_PittedWare_BattleAxe_minus | 6.48 |
| 6 | PWC NHG (Bronze Age)PWC_NHG | 6.72 |
| 7 | Gotland Hemmor Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Gotland_Hemmor_PittedWare_BattleAxe | 6.72 |
| 8 | Vasterbjers PWC BAC (Bronze Age)Vasterbjers_PWC_BAC | 6.92 |
| 9 | Iron Gates (Middle Bronze Age, Serbia)Serbia_IronGates_MBA | 7.70 |
| 10 | Corded Ware 1 (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_CordedWare_1 | 7.71 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | EstonianEstonian | 9.64 |
| 2 | LatvianLatvian | 9.73 |
| 3 | Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ | 9.88 |
| 4 | Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ | 9.92 |
| 5 | FinnishFinnish | 10.15 |
| 6 | Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast | 10.16 |
| 7 | IngrianIngrian | 10.22 |
| 8 | Russian PskovRussian_Pskov | 10.29 |
| 9 | Finnish EastFinnish_East | 10.33 |
| 10 | Lithuanian VALithuanian_VA | 10.34 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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.