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Alaska Ancient Athabaskan (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)

AK_Ancient_Athabaskan_1100BP

Alaska Ancient Athabaskan (Medieval, c. 1100 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (AK_Ancient_Athabaskan_1100BP), with 3 samples from United States, dated to c. 1230 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Alaska Athabskan, Canada (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP) and Canada (Neolithic, c. 6500 BP); the nearest living populations are Chipewyan, Amerindian North and Eskimo Naukan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include A2 and A2a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1230 CE
Sampled near
Tochak McGrath 62.95, -155.59
Samples
3
Catalogue
AK_Ancient_Athabaskan_1100BP
AK_Ancient_Athabaskan_1100BP.DG 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
1Alaska AthabskanAK_Athabskan4.24
2Canada (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP)CAN_6000BP4.31
3Canada (Neolithic, c. 6500 BP)Canada_6500BP4.74
4Alaska Paleo Aleut (Medieval)AK_PaleoAleut5.97
5Big Bar (Neolithic, c. 5700 BP)BigBar_5700BP6.17
6Big Bar (Chalcolithic, c. 5700 BP, Canada)Canada_BigBar_5700BP6.17
7Alaska Neo AleutAK_NeoAleut6.58
8Canada (c. 400 BP)CAN_400BP8.59
9WA Kennewick (Neolithic)WA_Kennewick8.75
10ASO (Canada)Canada_ASO9.56
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1ChipewyanChipewyan2.87
2Amerindian NorthAmerindian_North4.26
3Eskimo NaukanEskimo_Naukan13.65
4EskimoEskimo14.33
5Eskimo SirenikiEskimo_Sireniki16.10
6Eskimo ChaplinEskimo_Chaplin16.10
7MixtecMixtec16.30
8NahuaNahua16.35
9ZapotecZapotec16.36
10PimaPima16.38

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I5319AK_Ancient_Athabaskan_1100BPM1050-1400 calCETochak McGrathQ1b1a1a Q-Y4303A2a1
I5319.DGAK_Ancient_Athabaskan_1100BP.DGM1050-1400 calCETochak McGrathQ1b1a1a Q-Y4277A2a1
I5321AK_Ancient_Athabaskan_1100BPF1000-1450 CETochak McGrathA2