Ancient DNA from France

Main archaeological groups: France Yonne N (105), France Bucy le Long IA LaTene (41), France Occitanie Gard AvendelaBoucle N (29), France GrandEst IA2 (21), France Les Moidons IA Hallstatt (21).
Most frequent Y-DNA lines: R1b (111), G2a (97), I2a (61), H2c (10), F (6), H (6).
Most frequent mtDNA lines: K1a (61), U5b (46), H1 (31), J1c (30), H3 (18), H (13).

📊 How France's DNA changed over 10,000 years: hunter-gatherers, farmers, steppe herders and later arrivals, period by period.

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Period by period

Excavation sites

• Gurgy Les Noisats 125, 4,982 BC to 200 BC
• Bucy_le_Long 41, 652 BC to AD 539
• Aven de la Boucle 29, 3,715 BC to 968 BC
• Les_Moidons 25, 4,267 BC to 449 BC
• Chemin de Coupetz 22, 250 BC
• Parançot 21, 2,259 BC to AD 1348
• Fleury-sur-Orne 14, 4,562 BC to 3,616 BC
• Obernai 11, 5,076 BC to 4,427 BC
• Lariey-Puy-Saint-Pierre 10, AD 1629
• Pons Saravi-Marxberg 10, AD 208 to AD 363
• Camp_du_Château 8, 641 BC to AD 793
• Dolmen du Villard 8, 2,349 BC to 1,364 BC
• Port Blanc 8, 3,750 BC to 1,815 BC
• Les Pointes et les Grèvottes 7, 2,500 BC to 2,425 BC
• Roquepertuse 7, 300 BC
• Grotte-du-Rouquet 6, 3,396 BC to 3,097 BC
• Mont-Aimé-hypogée-2 6, 3,234 BC to 3,207 BC
• Barbuise les Grèves de Frécul 5, 400 BC
• Hoedic 5, 5,550 BC to 5,237 BC
• Jardin des Aubépines 5, 675 BC to 350 BC
• Le Cailar "Place de la Saint-Jean" 5, 350 BC
• Les Bréguières 5, 5,101 BC to 4,730 BC
• Mont-Aimé-hypogée-1 5, 3,216 BC to 2,901 BC
• Chaussé Saint Pierre 4, AD 475 to AD 975
• Grotte Mandrin 4, 52,000 BC to 1,364 BC
• Grotte-des-Tortues 4, 3,023 BC to 1,911 BC
• La Monédière 4, 500 BC to 100 BC
• Le Buissonnet 4, 275 BC to 250 BC
• Lingolsheim 4, 4,712 BC to 2,339 BC
• Mittelfeld-Rosenmeer 4, 4,694 BC to 4,650 BC
• Nordhouse 4, 750 BC to 550 BC
• Oberes Holzackerfeld 4, 700 BC to 226 BC
• Pech-Maho 4, 450 BC to 225 BC
• Rec de Ligno 4, 4,343 BC to 1,634 BC
• Untergasse 4, 250 BC
• Urville-Nacqueville 4, 100 BC
• Beg-er-Vil 3, 2,000 BC to 1,787 BC
• Buchères "PLA D37" 3, 475 BC to 375 BC
• Chémeré 3, AD 650
• Clos de Roque 3, 4,730 BC to 4,674 BC
• Grotte-Basse-de-la-Vigne-Perdue 3, 2,524 BC to 1,648 BC
• Iboussières 3, 9,791 BC to 9,725 BC
• Le Peyrou-2 3, 300 BC to 175 BC
• Les-Perrats 3, 7,100 BC
• Moussey 3, 3,450 BC to 3,446 BC
• Pendimoun 3, 5,413 BC to 5,409 BC
• Prissé-la-Charrière 3, 4,268 BC to 4,200 BC
• Saint Lupien Rezé 3, AD 458 to AD 483
• Saulager 3, 4,162 BC to 3,917 BC
• Téviec 3, 5,452 BC to 5,403 BC
• Vix_Les_Tillies 3, 194 BC
• Zac du Petit Prince 3, 1,714 BC to 1,650 BC
• Barbuise La Saulsotte 2, 1,500 BC
• Bischwihr-Muehlacker 2, 1,900 BC
• Bougon F0 2, 4,187 BC to 4,175 BC
• Champ Chalon 2, 4,300 BC to 4,147 BC
• Cuiry-lès-Chaudardes 2, 6,243 BC
• Dolmen des Peirières 2, 2,786 BC to 2,450 BC
• Ferme de l'Ile 2, 3,446 BC to 2,080 BC
• Fournol 2, 26,775 BC
• Grotte du Gazel 2, 4,600 BC to 4,546 BC
• La Marche 2, 16,127 BC
• La Rochette 2, 25,724 BC
• Le Piage 2, 21,528 BC
• Les Villas d'Aurele 2, 2,411 BC to 2,381 BC
• Lotissement Les Terrasses de la Zorn 2, 5,081 BC to 5,075 BC
• Obernai-PAEI 2, 1,824 BC to 1,800 BC
• Oppidum du Plan de la Tour 2, 425 BC
• PAC de la Sente 2, 2,300 BC to 2,245 BC
• Quinquiris 2, 1,650 BC
• Sablon 2, AD 448 to AD 475
• Saint-Pierre-aux-Nannains 2, AD 1325 to AD 1346
• Vasseny "Dessus des Groins" 2, 400 BC
• Achères 1, 7,165 BC
• Berry-Au-Bac 1, 5,287 BC
• Bois_de_Serry 1, 1,923 BC
• Bucy-le-Long "la Fosse Tounise" 1, 325 BC
• Bucy-le-Long "la Heronnière" 1, 325 BC
• Bucy-le-Long "le fond du Marais" 1, 225 BC
• Burtecourt 1, 1,400 BC
• Champfleury "RN51" 1, 450 BC
• Collet Redon 1, 3,500 BC
• Dolmen de Saint-Eugène 1, 1,932 BC
• Farman 1, 8,014 BC
• Goxwiller 1, 500 BC
• Hegenheim Necropole 1, 2,566 BC
• Hungeheuer-Hoelzle 1, 5,069 BC
• Innere Allmende 1, 875 BC
• Isles sur Suippe "Les Sohettes" 1, 200 BC
• Jebsen-Boden 1, 500 BC
• La Fare 1, 2,373 BC
• La Pièce à Liards 1, 550 BC
• la Plaine 1, 4,115 BC
• La-Bouche-à-Vesle 1, 2,497 BC
• Laignes_tumulus_de_Toucheboeuf 1, 624 BC
• Le Crès 1, 4,250 BC
• Le_Mesnay_les_Ecomboles 1, 640 BC
• Les Cottés cave 1, 40,896 BC
• Les-Closeaux 1, 7,983 BC
• Les-Marmousets 1, AD 328
• Lunette 1, AD 489
• Maisey-le-Duc_tumulus_de_la_Tête_de_Maise 1, 604 BC
• Maisey-le-Duc_tumulus_de_la_Tête_de_Maisey 1, 640 BC
• Maisey-le-Duc_tumulus_du_Puits_de_Nod 1, 614 BC
• Maisons-Alfort 1, 6,915 BC
• Martincourt 1, 2,584 BC
• Marxberg Necropolis 1, AD 275
• Mas-Rouge 1, 3,000 BC
• Menneville "Derrière le village" 1, 5,013 BC
• Mont d'Hubert 1, 4,550 BC
• Mont Saint Pierre 1, 6,169 BC
• Ormesson 1, 28,950 BC
• Pincevent 1, 13,256 BC
• PLA D39 1, 4,300 BC
• Port-Bara 1, AD 1265
• Ranchot 1, 8,184 BC
• Rigney 1, 13,509 BC
• Rochedane 1, 11,077 BC
• Rouffach 1, 2,229 BC
• Saint-Martin-la-Garenne 1, 1,850 BC

And 10 smaller sites.

Source: Allen Ancient DNA Resource v66 (Mallick et al. 2024), individuals with a date and coordinates; samples the AADR flags as misdated are left out. Group names are those of the original studies. Haplogroups are shown when they could be read from the ancient DNA.