Ancient population · Iron Age
Aghitu Ancient (Iron Age)
Aghitu_Anc
Aghitu Ancient (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Aghitu_Anc), with 1 sample from Syunik, Armenia, dated to c. 10 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Armenia (Early Medieval), Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia) and Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Armenian Artsakh, Udi and Turkish Erzurum.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2; its mtDNA haplogroup is H13a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 10 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Origin
- Syunik, Armenia
- Sampled near
- Aghitu 39.55, 45.08
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Aghitu_Anc
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armenia (Early Medieval)Armenia_EarlyMedieval | 3.13 |
| 2 | Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_LateHellenistic | 3.60 |
| 3 | Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible | 3.98 |
| 4 | Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian | 4.00 |
| 5 | Armenia (Iron Age)Armenia_IA | 4.09 |
| 6 | Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia)Armenia_UrartianEmpire | 4.10 |
| 7 | Turkish EastTurkish_East | 4.11 |
| 8 | Areni (Chalcolithic, Armenia)Armenia_C_Areni | 4.17 |
| 9 | Beniamin Urartu (Iron Age, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_IA | 4.19 |
| 10 | Hasanlu (Iron Age)Hasanlu_IA | 4.26 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armenian ArtsakhArmenian_Artsakh | 3.02 |
| 2 | UdiUdi | 3.04 |
| 3 | Turkish ErzurumTurkish_Erzurum | 3.19 |
| 4 | Georgian KartGeorgian_Kart | 3.54 |
| 5 | Armenian SyunikArmenian_Syunik | 3.55 |
| 6 | Andian AAndian_A | 3.58 |
| 7 | Armenian ParspatunikArmenian_Parspatunik | 3.66 |
| 8 | Turkish AhiskaTurkish_Ahiska | 3.77 |
| 9 | Georgian KakhGeorgian_Kakh | 3.88 |
| 10 | Azerbaijani Republic ShakiAzerbaijani_Republic_Shaki | 3.91 |
Haplogroups
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.