According to genetic studies, the Monteoru culture had male haplogroups I2a and G2a. Of the female haplogroups, the following were present: H11a2, K1c1, H1, J1c, U5a1a1, H58.[6]
^Boardman, John; Edwards, I.E.S; Hammond, N.G.L; Sollberger, E., eds. (1982). "1. The Prehistory of Romania, VII. The Bronze Age". The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 3, Part 1 (Second ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 54–56. ISBN978-0521224963. The Monteoru culture derived from the early Glina-Schneckenberg and included some elements that had persisted from the transitional period ... The last stage of the Monteoru culture (Balintesti-Girbovat, in south-eastern Moldova), which is missing at the eponymous site, forms the transition to the Noua culture of the Late Bronze Age.
^Boroffka, Nikolaus (2013). "Chapter 47: Romania, Moldova, and Bulgaria". In Harding, Anthony; Fokkens, Harry (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age. OUP Oxford. p. 889. ISBN978-0-19-957286-1. While the Noua ceramic repertoire does not have precursors in Transylvania and may indeed be intrusive there, most pottery shapes (and ornaments) can be derived from the preceding Monteoru culture of western Moldavia.
^Gimbutas, Marija (1965). Bronze Age Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe. De Gruyter. p. 219. ISBN9783111668147. The term Monteoru I shall use in its broadest sense, that is, as a name of a culture covering all phases of the Bronze Age and all its variants. Hence, the Early Bronze Age group such as the Schneckenberg around Brasov in eastern Transylvania, or the Late Bronze Age Noua culture will be treated as parts of Monteoru.
^Anthony, David (2007). The Horse, the Wheel, and Language. Princeton University Press. p. 411. ISBN978-0-691-14818-2. Chariotry spread west through the Ukrainian steppe MVK [Mnogovalikovaya] culture into southeastern Europe's Monteoru (phase Icl-Ib), Vatin, and Otomani cultures
