Ancient population · Bronze Age
Wales (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)
Wales_C_EBA
Wales (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Wales_C_EBA), with 1 sample from United Kingdom, dated to c. 1610 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Saxon (Early Medieval, England), EM (Faroes) and Greenland E VA (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Icelandic, Danish and Norwegian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is I3.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1610 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Great Orme 53.33, -3.84
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- OlaldeReichNature2018
- Catalogue
Wales_C_EBA
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 | Saxon (Early Medieval, England)England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon | 2.55 |
| 2 | EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM | 2.60 |
| 3 | Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA | 2.61 |
| 4 | Hofstadir VA (Medieval)Hofstadir_VA | 2.61 |
| 5 | Skara VA (Medieval)Skara_VA | 2.65 |
| 6 | Viking (Medieval, England)England_Viking | 2.67 |
| 7 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 2.67 |
| 8 | Saxon (Medieval, England)England_Saxon | 2.68 |
| 9 | Scotland (Late Bronze Age)Scotland_LBA | 2.73 |
| 10 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA | 2.73 |
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I1775 | M | 1731-1536 calBCE | Great Orme | R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151 | I3 |