Ancient population · Bronze Age
Wales (Late Bronze Age)
Wales_LBA
Wales (Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Wales_LBA), with 1 sample from Wales, United Kingdom, dated to c. 1100 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Middle Bronze Age), Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age) and Ireland (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Irish, Czech Modern and Norwegian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1100 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- Wales, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Culver Hole Cave 51.54, -4.21
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Wales_LBA
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 | Scotland (Middle Bronze Age)Scotland_MBA | 2.22 |
| 2 | Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)Scotland_MIA_LIA | 2.25 |
| 3 | Ireland (Bronze Age)IRL_BA | 2.42 |
| 4 | Ireland (Early Bronze Age)Ireland_EBA | 2.46 |
| 5 | Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_MBA | 2.60 |
| 6 | East Yorkshire (Late Iron Age, England)England_EastYorkshire_LIA | 2.65 |
| 7 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age–Late Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA_LBA | 2.67 |
| 8 | Viking Age Pre Christian (Medieval)Viking_Age_Pre_Christian | 2.75 |
| 9 | Low EEF (Late Bronze Age, England)England_LBA_lowEEF | 2.85 |
| 10 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 2.88 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IrishIrish | 3.38 |
| 2 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 3.47 |
| 3 | NorwegianNorwegian | 3.55 |
| 4 | IcelandicIcelandic | 3.65 |
| 5 | ScottishScottish | 3.73 |
| 6 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.78 |
| 7 | WelshWelsh | 3.85 |
| 8 | DanishDanish | 3.86 |
| 9 | EnglishEnglish | 3.99 |
| 10 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.99 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I16488 | M | 1201-1015 calBCE | Culver Hole Cave | R1b1a1b1a1a2c1 R-Y31142 | U5a1b1 |