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Central Europe, Bronze and Iron Age: Unterwölbling culture → Urnfield culture → Hallstatt culture → La Tène culture

Here the male lines run from the Early Bronze Age to the Celts. The Unterwölbling culture of Lower Austria probably descends from the Bell Beakers; its men are 92% R1b, and it shares 92% with the Urnfield culture. Urnfield preceded Hallstatt, and La Tène grew out of the Hallstatt tradition without a clear break. Hallstatt is more mixed: besides R1b it has a fair share of G2a and I2a. It shares 55% with La Tène, where R1b is back to 69%.

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Central Europe, Bronze and Iron Age: Y haplogroup shares of cultures that followed one another
How to read the chart

Each sample is cut to its ancestor at the chosen depth; a sample whose test did not reach that deep stays on its own branch. An asterisk: in this culture the branch also has samples further down. “A → B” is the share of A's samples with a branch of the same line in B: the same branch, its ancestor or a branch under it. A sample whose test stopped higher could belong to any branch under it, so it matches them. The frequency overlap sums the smaller share of every shared branch, such a sample's share split among the branches under it by their shares in both cultures together; it is less swayed by single samples. By age, a sample moves up to the ancestor whose branch had already split off by the chosen year (branch ages are Discover estimates), so every letter is cut at the same time. “Auto” takes the time of the oldest culture chosen, or earlier if a column would not read otherwise. Maternal lines follow the Mitotree tree of FTDNA Discover.

The chain in numbers #

Y-DNA, tree depth 14. Similarity is the overlap of branch frequencies with the culture before.

The chain in numbers
Culture Samples Leading groups Similarity with the previous
Unterwölbling culture 12 R1b 91.7% (11 of 12, 95% confidence interval: 65–99%), G2a 8.3% (1 of 12, 95% confidence interval: 1–35%) —
Urnfield culture 15 R1b 100.0% (15 of 15, 95% confidence interval: 80–100%) 91.7%
Hallstatt culture 62 R1b 43.5%, G2a 25.8%, I2a 21.0% 32.9%
La Tène culture 124 R1b 69.4%, G2a 10.5%, R1a 5.6% 54.8%

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