Historical Timeline - Ancient Western Europe

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Ancient Western Europe

Historical Timeline

Analyzing your genetic similarity to ancient Western European reference samples...

Preparing your genetic-similarity report

Ancient Western Europe

Your Similarity Through Time

How your genetic similarity to Western European reference samples changes across periods, and when your closest matches lived.

(SSUAJF) Demo Report Generated Oct 7, 2026

France and the Low Countries carried Atlantic, Beaker, Gaulish, Roman, and Frankish layers in turn.

Ancient Western Europe
7Periods scored
277Dated matches
34,975Years spanned by your matches
MedievalStrongest similarity (63/100)

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 similarity scores
Period Dates Similarity About this period
Mesolithic 10,000 BCE to 5,000 BCE 0/100 Atlantic and inland hunter-gatherer communities.
Neolithic 5,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE 9/100 Early farmers of the Paris basin and Atlantic coast.
Copper Age 3,000 BCE to 2,200 BCE 0/100 Bell Beaker and megalithic societies.
Bronze Age 2,200 BCE to 800 BCE 0/100 Atlantic Bronze Age networks.
Iron Age 800 BCE to 50 BCE 0/100 Gaulish and Belgic populations.
Roman Period 50 BCE to 500 CE 7/100 Gallo-Roman provincial communities.
Medieval 500 CE to 1,500 CE 63/100 Merovingian, Frankish, and later medieval communities.
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