The First Farmers of Barcın

Barcın Höyük, near Bursa, is one of the oldest Neolithic villages in northwest Anatolia, a cluster of houses and hearths from the seventh millennium BCE. Its importance runs far beyond Turkey. The people of Barcın are the direct source population of Europe's first farmers: roughly a third to a half of the Early Neolithic ancestry in Greece, Hungary and Germany traces back to villages like this one, carried westward with the sheep, wheat and pottery. Their paternal lineages are dominated by G2a. Many of the graves belong to infants and small children, among them a girl under a year old, buried beneath the floors of the houses where their families went on living.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians.

Every Ancestry Map includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because these are a small group of real individuals, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances. That is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that the First Farmers of Barcın are your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about Ancestry Map, the full Global25 report.

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  Who were the First Farmers of Barcın?

  The First Farmers of Barcın (c. 6500-5900 BCE, Barcın Höyük, Yenişehir, Bursa, Turkey) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 12 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians".

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  What does "matching" the First Farmers of Barcın mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No, and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the First Farmers of Barcın?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestry Map, never sold separately. Order Ancestry Map, our Global25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

The catalog holds every published entry across three tiers. Browse the full Notable Matches directory. Nearby entries:

• The First Farmers of Nea Nikomedeiac. 6300-6000 BCE

• Loschbour Manc. 6100 BCE

• The Shum Laka Childrenc. 6000 BCE and 1000 BCE

• The Hòabìnhian of Pha Faenc. 6000 BCE

• The Farmers of Çatalhöyükc. 7100-5900 BCE

• The First Farmers of Starčevoc. 6200-5500 BCE

• The Fisher-Foragers of Lepenski Virc. 9500-5500 BCE

• The First Farmers of Kaf Taht el-Gharc. 5450-5000 BCE

• The First Farmers of the Linearbandkeramikc. 5500-4900 BCE

• The Takarkori Mummiesc. 5000 BCE

• The Vinča Culturec. 5300-4500 BCE

• The Ertebølle Fisher-Foragersc. 5400-4300 BCE