Ancient population · Bronze Age
Vasterbjers PWC BAC (Bronze Age)
Vasterbjers_PWC_BAC
Vasterbjers PWC BAC (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Vasterbjers_PWC_BAC), with 2 samples from Gotland, Sweden, dated to c. 2910–2520 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to PWC (Bronze Age, Sweden), Gotland Vasterbjers Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden) and PWC NHG (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian SZ and Estonian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I and IJ; its mtDNA haplogroups include HV12 and U4a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2910–2520 BCE
- Country
- Sweden
- Origin
- Gotland, Sweden
- Sampled near
- Västerbjers 57.58, 18.70
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- CoutinhoJakobssonAJBA2020
- Catalogue
Vasterbjers_PWC_BAC
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 | PWC (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_PWC | 2.85 |
| 2 | Gotland Vasterbjers Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Gotland_Vasterbjers_PittedWare_BattleAxe | 3.40 |
| 3 | PWC NHG (Bronze Age)PWC_NHG | 3.62 |
| 4 | Gotland Hemmor Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Gotland_Hemmor_PittedWare_BattleAxe | 4.14 |
| 5 | Ajvide PWC BAC (Bronze Age)Ajvide_PWC_BAC | 4.38 |
| 6 | Gotland Ajvide Pitted Ware Battle Axe (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Gotland_Ajvide_PittedWare_BattleAxe | 4.41 |
| 7 | Gotland Hemmor Pitted Ware Battle Axe minus (Bronze Age, Sweden)Sweden_Gotland_Hemmor_PittedWare_BattleAxe_minus | 4.68 |
| 8 | Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Estonia)Estonia_EMN_Narva | 6.71 |
| 9 | Ukraine (Eneolithic)Ukraine_Eneolithic | 7.40 |
| 10 | Ukraine (Neolithic)Ukraine_N | 7.74 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LatvianLatvian | 15.63 |
| 2 | Lithuanian SZLithuanian_SZ | 15.71 |
| 3 | EstonianEstonian | 15.76 |
| 4 | Lithuanian PZLithuanian_PZ | 15.80 |
| 5 | Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast | 16.17 |
| 6 | Finnish EastFinnish_East | 16.18 |
| 7 | FinnishFinnish | 16.24 |
| 8 | KarelianKarelian | 16.27 |
| 9 | IngrianIngrian | 16.30 |
| 10 | Russian PskovRussian_Pskov | 16.33 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.