Ancient population · Bronze Age
Wales (Middle Bronze Age)
Wales_MBA
Wales (Middle Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Wales_MBA), with 1 sample from Wales, United Kingdom, dated to c. 1330 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Scotland (Middle Bronze Age), Ireland (Bronze Age) and England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Irish and Norwegian.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1330 BCE
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Origin
- Wales, United Kingdom
- Sampled near
- Great Orme 53.33, -3.84
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- PattersonReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Wales_MBA
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 | 2.65 |
| 2 | Ireland (Bronze Age)IRL_BA | 2.72 |
| 3 | England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA | 2.76 |
| 4 | England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA | 2.88 |
| 5 | Scotland (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)Scotland_C_EBA | 2.91 |
| 6 | Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age–Late Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA_LBA | 2.95 |
| 7 | Orkney (Middle Bronze Age, Scotland)Scotland_Orkney_MBA | 2.97 |
| 8 | Low EEF (Middle Iron Age, England)England_MIA_lowEEF | 2.97 |
| 9 | Low EEF (Late Bronze Age, England)England_LBA_lowEEF | 2.99 |
| 10 | Scotland (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)Scotland_MIA_LIA | 3.00 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Czech ModernCzech_Modern | 3.28 |
| 2 | IrishIrish | 3.67 |
| 3 | NorwegianNorwegian | 3.85 |
| 4 | OrcadianOrcadian | 3.86 |
| 5 | ScottishScottish | 3.97 |
| 6 | ShetlandicShetlandic | 3.99 |
| 7 | IcelandicIcelandic | 4.02 |
| 8 | DanishDanish | 4.10 |
| 9 | DutchDutch | 4.22 |
| 10 | WelshWelsh | 4.25 |
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 | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I2574 | F | 1417-1226 calBCE | Great Orme | U5a1a2b |