Ancient population · Ancient
Alaska Athabskan
AK_Athabskan
Alaska Athabskan is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (AK_Athabskan), with 1 sample from United States, dated to c. 1850 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Alaska Paleo Aleut (Medieval), Alaska Neo Aleut and Alaska Ancient Athabaskan (Medieval, c. 1100 BP); the nearest living populations are Chipewyan, Amerindian North and Eskimo Naukan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is A2a.
- Period
- Ancient
- Date
- c. 1850 CE
- Country
- United States
- Sampled near
- Palm Site 60.26, -150.19
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- ScheibKivisildScience2018
- Catalogue
AK_Athabskan.SGvariant
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 | Alaska Paleo Aleut (Medieval)AK_PaleoAleut | 2.93 |
| 2 | Alaska Neo AleutAK_NeoAleut | 3.56 |
| 3 | Alaska Ancient Athabaskan (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)AK_Ancient_Athabaskan_1100BP | 4.24 |
| 4 | Uelen Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia)Russia_Uelen_OldBeringSea | 7.07 |
| 5 | Ekven (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_Ekven_IA | 7.30 |
| 6 | Ekven Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia)Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea | 7.40 |
| 7 | Canada (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP)CAN_6000BP | 7.76 |
| 8 | Canada (Neolithic, c. 6500 BP)Canada_6500BP | 8.15 |
| 9 | Old Bering Ekven (Medieval)Old_Bering_Ekven | 8.72 |
| 10 | Big Bar (Chalcolithic, c. 5700 BP, Canada)Canada_BigBar_5700BP | 9.69 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChipewyanChipewyan | 6.20 |
| 2 | Amerindian NorthAmerindian_North | 7.92 |
| 3 | Eskimo NaukanEskimo_Naukan | 10.08 |
| 4 | EskimoEskimo | 10.70 |
| 5 | Eskimo ChaplinEskimo_Chaplin | 12.44 |
| 6 | Eskimo SirenikiEskimo_Sireniki | 12.52 |
| 7 | Greenlander EastGreenlander_East | 16.02 |
| 8 | ChukchiChukchi | 17.14 |
| 9 | CreeCree | 17.44 |
| 10 | MixtecMixtec | 19.91 |
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.