Ancient population · Bronze Age

Afanasievo 1 (Bronze Age)

Afanasievo_1

Afanasievo 1 (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Afanasievo_1), with 1 sample from Bayankhongor Province, Mongolia, dated to c. 3120 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia), North Caucasus (Bronze Age, Russia) and Yamnaya Karagash (Bronze Age, Kazakhstan); the nearest living populations are Pamiri Rushan, Tajik Rushan and Darginian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is R.

Date
c. 3120 BCE
Country
Mongolia
Origin
Bayankhongor Province, Mongolia
Sampled near
Shatar-Chuluu 46.31, 100.76
Samples
1
Catalogue
Afanasievo_1_contam variant

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA2.62
2North Caucasus (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_North_Caucasus2.82
3Yamnaya Karagash (Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Yamnaya_KAZ_Karagash2.97
4Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya3.01
5Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_EBA_Yamnaya3.18
6Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Afanasievo3.42
7Kalmykia Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Kalmykia_EBA_Yamnaya3.51
8Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MBA_Poltavka3.52
9Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia)Yamnaya_RUS_Kalmykia3.52
10Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Steppe_Catacomb3.57
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Pamiri RushanPamiri_Rushan11.49
2Tajik RushanTajik_Rushan11.50
3DarginianDarginian11.89
4AkhvakhAkhvakh11.90
5Andian BAndian_B12.16
6Pamiri ShugnanPamiri_Shugnan12.17
7Tajik ShugnanTajik_Shugnan12.28
8AvarAvar12.29
9KaitagKaitag12.41
10KubachinianKubachinian12.49

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 1

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I6222M3350-2900 BCEShatar-ChuluuR1b1a R-L389R