Ancient population · Bronze Age

Altai (Middle–Late Bronze Age)

Name: Altai (Middle–Late Bronze Age) (Altai_MLBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Altai_MLBA

Altai (Middle–Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Altai_MLBA), with 1 sample from Khövsgöl, Mongolia, dated to c. 1010 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tasmola (Iron Age), Saka Kazakh steppe (Iron Age) and Central Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Central_Saka; the nearest living populations are Tatar Siberian, Bashkir and Nogai Dobruja.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is C4a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1010 BCE
Country: Mongolia
Origin: Khövsgöl, Mongolia
Sampled near: Arbulag-2009-52 49.69, 99.78
Samples: 1
Published in: JeongWarinnerPNAS2018
Catalogue: Altai_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	Tasmola (Iron Age)`Tasmola_IA`	2.07
2	Saka Kazakh steppe (Iron Age)`Saka_Kazakh_steppe`	2.18
3	Central Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Central_Saka`Kazakhstan_Central_Saka`	2.22
4	Sagly 4 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_EIA_Sagly_4`	2.44
5	Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Tasmola_EIA`	2.47
6	Xinjiang Dongtalede (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Dongtalede_IA`	2.77
7	Berel (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Berel_IA`	2.82
8	Altai (Iron Age)`Altai_IA`	3.06
9	Russia 3 (Iron Age)`Russia_IA_3`	3.37
10	Khovd (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Khovd_MLBA`	3.50

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Tatar Siberian`Tatar_Siberian`	5.38
2	Bashkir`Bashkir`	5.46
3	Nogai Dobruja`Nogai_Dobruja`	8.17
4	Nogai`Nogai`	8.34
5	Uzbek`Uzbek`	8.89
6	Tatar Siberian Zabolotniye`Tatar_Siberian_Zabolotniye`	9.12
7	Hazara Afghanistan`Hazara_Afghanistan`	9.52
8	Karakalpak`Karakalpak`	9.82
9	Uygur`Uygur`	10.08
10	Tubalar`Tubalar`	10.10

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1a1a1b2a2a1d9 R-Y176484

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

C4a1a

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`ARS026`	M	1189-899 calBCE	Arbulag-2009-52	R1a1a1b2a2a1d9 R-Y176484	C4a1a