Ancient population · Bronze Age

Yamnaya (Bronze Age, Ukraine)

Yamnaya_UKR

Yamnaya (Bronze Age, Ukraine) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Yamnaya_UKR), with 1 sample from Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, dated to about 2680 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Afanasievo 1 (Chalcolithic, Mongolia), Corded Ware early (Bronze Age, Poland) and Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Poland); the nearest living populations are Finnish Central, Russian Leshukonsky and Mordovian.

Date
about 2680 BCE
Country
Ukraine
Origin
Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Samples
1
Catalogue
Yamnaya_UKR

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.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Afanasievo 1 (Chalcolithic, Mongolia)Mongolia_Chalcolithic_Afanasievo_14.53
2Corded Ware early (Bronze Age, Poland)Corded_Ware_POL_early4.53
3Corded Ware (Bronze Age, Poland)Poland_CordedWare4.56
4Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MBA_Poltavka4.94
5Catacomb (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova)Moldova_MBA_Catacomb4.96
6Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_EBA_Yamnaya5.06
7Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya5.08
8Yamnaya Karagash (Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Yamnaya_KAZ_Karagash5.09
9Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Afanasievo5.11
10Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA5.11
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Finnish CentralFinnish_Central12.17
2Russian LeshukonskyRussian_Leshukonsky12.21
3MordovianMordovian12.28
4ErzyaErzya12.30
5Finnish EastFinnish_East12.33
6Russian KostromaRussian_Kostroma12.36
7FinnishFinnish12.41
8MokshaMoksha12.42
9KarelianKarelian12.46
10IngrianIngrian12.47

Individuals 1

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

SampleDateOrigin
MJ062680 BCEDonetsk Oblast, Ukraine