Ancient population · Medieval
Alan (Medieval)
Alan_MA
Alan (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Alan_MA), with 3 samples from North Ossetia, Russia, dated to about 900 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Alan (Medieval, Russia), Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age) and Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Kumyk, Chechen and Ingushian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups Q1b and R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H13a, H5 and W1.
- Period
- Medieval
- Date
- about 900 CE
- Country
- Russia
- Origin
- North Ossetia, Russia
- Sampled near
- Unknown, Kirovsky 43.50, 43.77
- Sites
- Unknown, Kirovsky
Unknown, Malokarachayevsky
Unknown, Pravoberezhny - Samples
- 3
- Published in
- DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
- Catalogue
Alan_MA
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 | Alan (Medieval, Russia)Russia_Alan | 0.44 |
| 2 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)Armenia_LBA_EIA | 3.04 |
| 3 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Lchashen_LBA | 3.25 |
| 4 | Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_LBA | 3.28 |
| 5 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBAArmenia_LBA | 3.31 |
| 6 | Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBAArmenia_MBA | 3.35 |
| 7 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · ARM_LBAARM_LBA | 3.54 |
| 8 | Anapa (Medieval)Anapa_MA | 3.63 |
| 9 | Caucasus (Medieval, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_Medieval | 3.66 |
| 10 | TVC (Middle Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_MBA_TVC | 3.70 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | KumykKumyk | 2.27 |
| 2 | ChechenChechen | 2.38 |
| 3 | IngushianIngushian | 2.67 |
| 4 | Tat Dagestan DzhalganTat_Dagestan_Dzhalgan | 2.90 |
| 5 | KarataKarata | 3.06 |
| 6 | AdygeiAdygei | 3.24 |
| 7 | TabasaranTabasaran | 3.30 |
| 8 | BalkarBalkar | 3.40 |
| 9 | KabardinKabardin | 3.43 |
| 10 | CircassianCircassian | 3.45 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 5
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.