Central Europe sits where farming, Corded Ware, Beaker, and later Roman and medieval worlds overlapped.
Periods and individuals through time
Bands show the periods scored in this report, with your similarity score for each. Portraits mark matched ancient individuals at their estimated date; the crown marks your closest match. Select a portrait to see details. The tables below carry the same information as text.
Your matches in chronological order
Period similarity scores
Fit-weighted affinity to each period's reference populations on a 0 to 100 scale. Values are similarity scores and do not add up to your ancestry.
| Period | Dates | Similarity | About this period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesolithic | 10,000 BCE to 5,500 BCE | 31/100 | Post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities. |
| Neolithic | 5,500 BCE to 4,500 BCE | 14/100 | Linear Pottery and later farming societies. |
| Copper Age | 4,500 BCE to 2,200 BCE | 2/100 | Corded Ware and Bell Beaker communities. |
| Bronze Age | 2,200 BCE to 800 BCE | 9/100 | Unetice and Urnfield societies. |
| Iron Age | 800 BCE to 50 BCE | 3/100 | Hallstatt and La Tene populations. |
| Roman Period | 50 BCE to 500 CE | 14/100 | Provincial communities of the Roman frontier. |
| Medieval | 500 CE to 1,500 CE | 23/100 | Medieval Central European communities. |