Ancient population · Bronze Age

Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)

Name: Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age) (Alalakh_MLBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Alalakh_MLBA

Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Alalakh_MLBA), with 6 samples from Mediterranean, Turkey, dated to c. 1910–1430 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey), Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria) and Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh, Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta and Lebanese Christian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a, J2a and J2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a (2) and R1a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1910–1430 BCE
Country: Turkey
Origin: Mediterranean, Turkey
Sampled near: Atchana-Alalakh 36.24, 36.38
Sites: Atchana-Alalakh (3)
Tell-Atchana (3)
Samples: 6
Published in: SkourtaniotiKrauseCell2020
IngmanStockhammerPLoSOne2021
Catalogue: Alalakh_MLBA

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	1.18
2	Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)`Syria_Ebla_EMBA`	1.55
3	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	1.56
4	Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)`Turkey_MBA`	1.84
5	SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age)`SE_Kilis_MBA`	2.15
6	Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox`Lebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox`	2.38
7	Lebanese Christian Maronite`Lebanese_Christian_Maronite`	2.46
8	Levant Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age)`Levant_Ashkelon_LBA`	2.61
9	Levant Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Levant_LBN_Roman`	2.67
10	Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Lebanon_Roman`	2.69

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	2.42
2	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	2.52
3	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	2.70
4	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	2.75
5	Druze`Druze`	3.35
6	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	3.40
7	Iraqi Jew`Iraqi_Jew`	3.40
8	Samaritan`Samaritan`	3.48
9	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	3.50
10	Kurdish Jew`Kurdish_Jew`	3.71

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331
J2a1a1a2b2a2b1 J-Y113289
J2b1a J-Y22075
T1a1a T-L208

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 11

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

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`ALA001`	M	1498-1322 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331
`ALA014`	M	1743-1621 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	J2b1a J-Y22075
`ALA110_ALA015`	M	2018-1778 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	T1a1a T-L208
`ALA130`	F	2000-1200 BCE	Tell-Atchana		K1a4c1
`ALA131`	M	2000-1200 BCE	Tell-Atchana	J2a1a1a2b2a2b1 J-Y113289	K1a4a
`ALA135`	F	2000-1200 BCE	Tell-Atchana		R1a
`ALA024` outlier	F	2115-1776 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		U3b
`ALA038` outlier	F	1612-1452 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		J1b3b1
`ALA128` outlier	M	2000-1200 BCE	Tell-Atchana	L1b1 L-M349
`ALA136` outlier	M	2000-1200 BCE	Tell-Atchana	E1b1b1a1a1 E-Y2863
`ALA138` outlier	M	2000-1200 BCE	Tell-Atchana	T1a1a T-L208	K1a