Ancient population · Iron Age
Altai (Iron Age)
Altai_IA
Altai (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Altai_IA), with 3 samples from Altai Krai, Russia, dated to about 500 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Berel (Iron Age, Kazakhstan), Russia 3 (Iron Age) and Sagly 4 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia); the nearest living populations are Bashkir, Tatar Siberian and Nogai Dobruja.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups Q1a (2) and J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include C4, K2a and M8a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- about 500 BCE
- Country
- Russia
- Origin
- Altai Krai, Russia
- Sampled near
- Verh-Uimon 50.35, 85.97
- Sites
- Verh-Uimon (2)
Sary-Bel - Samples
- 3
- Published in
- AllentoftWillerslevNature2015
- Catalogue
Altai_IA
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 | Berel (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Berel_IA | 1.72 |
| 2 | Russia 3 (Iron Age)Russia_IA_3 | 1.77 |
| 3 | Sagly 4 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_EIA_Sagly_4 | 1.96 |
| 4 | Saka Kazakh steppe (Iron Age)Saka_Kazakh_steppe | 2.37 |
| 5 | Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Tasmola_EIA | 2.41 |
| 6 | Tasmola (Iron Age)Tasmola_IA | 2.42 |
| 7 | Central Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Central_SakaKazakhstan_Central_Saka | 2.48 |
| 8 | Altai (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Altai_MLBA | 3.06 |
| 9 | Xinjiang Dongtalede (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Dongtalede_IA | 3.06 |
| 10 | Khovd (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khovd_MLBA | 3.14 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BashkirBashkir | 4.62 |
| 2 | Tatar SiberianTatar_Siberian | 5.22 |
| 3 | Nogai DobrujaNogai_Dobruja | 8.37 |
| 4 | Tatar Siberian ZabolotniyeTatar_Siberian_Zabolotniye | 8.59 |
| 5 | NogaiNogai | 8.72 |
| 6 | UzbekUzbek | 8.73 |
| 7 | Tatar Crimean steppeTatar_Crimean_steppe | 9.98 |
| 8 | Hazara AfghanistanHazara_Afghanistan | 9.99 |
| 9 | KarakalpakKarakalpak | 10.41 |
| 10 | TubalarTubalar | 10.59 |
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.