Ancient population · Neolithic

Amur River (Early Neolithic)

Amur_River_EN

Amur River (Early Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Amur_River_EN), with 2 samples from Inner Mongolia, China, dated to c. 5440–5410 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to AR (Early Neolithic, China), Argun River M (Neolithic, Russia) and Lena River (Early Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Nanai, Negidal and Ulchi.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include C4a and C5.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 5440–5410 BCE
Country
China
Origin
Inner Mongolia, China
Sampled near
Wuqi farm site 46.86, 119.66
Sites
Wuqi farm site
Zhalainuoer Mining Site
Samples
2
Published in
NingCuiNatComm2020
Catalogue
Amur_River_EN

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
#PopulationDistance
1AR (Early Neolithic, China)China_AR_EN1.29
2Argun River M (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_ArgunRiver_M3.28
3Lena River (Early Neolithic)Lena_River_EN3.34
4Lena River (Early Neolithic, Russia)Russia_LenaRiver_EN3.34
5Argun River (Mesolithic)Argun_River_Meso3.36
6Kadalinka River (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_KadalinkaRiver_N3.58
7Kuenga River 2 (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_KuengaRiver_N_23.67
8Khentii Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khentii_Xiongnu3.82
9Trans-Baikal (Neolithic)Trans-Baikal_N4.15
10Amur River (Chalcolithic, c. 6330 BP)Amur_River_6330BP4.18
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NanaiNanai4.56
2NegidalNegidal5.49
3UlchiUlchi5.99
4OroqenOroqen7.04
5NivkhNivkh7.68
6KhamneganKhamnegan9.32
7HezhenHezhen10.12
8DaurDaur10.90
9BuryatBuryat11.67
10MongolMongol12.51

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
WQM4F5478-5331 calBCEWuqi farm siteC4a1a
ZLNR-2F5527-5376 calBCEZhalainuoer Mining SiteC5