Ancient population · Iron Age

Amur River Xianbei (Iron Age)

Amur_River_Xianbei_IA

Amur River Xianbei (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Amur_River_Xianbei_IA), with 1 sample from Inner Mongolia, China, dated to c. 150 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Khentii Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia), Trans-Baikal (Bronze Age) and Kadalinka River (Neolithic, Russia); the nearest living populations are Nanai, Negidal and Ulchi.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is C4a.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 150 CE
Country
China
Origin
Inner Mongolia, China
Sampled near
Mogushan Xianbei site 46.86, 119.66
Samples
1
Published in
NingCuiNatComm2020
Catalogue
Amur_River_Xianbei_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.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Khentii Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khentii_Xiongnu3.13
2Trans-Baikal (Bronze Age)Trans-Baikal_BA3.83
3Kadalinka River (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_KadalinkaRiver_N3.95
4Trans-Baikal (Neolithic)Trans-Baikal_N4.04
5East (Neolithic, Mongolia)Mongolia_East_N4.20
6Dornod Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Dornod_Xiongnu4.21
7Argun River (Mesolithic)Argun_River_Meso4.23
8Tuv (Early Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Tuv_EIA4.24
9Argun River M (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_ArgunRiver_M4.31
10Golden Horde Asian (Medieval, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_GoldenHordeAsian4.41
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NanaiNanai5.81
2NegidalNegidal7.13
3UlchiUlchi7.48
4OroqenOroqen7.63
5KhamneganKhamnegan8.27
6NivkhNivkh8.92
7BuryatBuryat10.08
8HezhenHezhen10.73
9DaurDaur11.07
10MongolMongol11.32

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
MGS-M7RM50-250 CEMogushan Xianbei siteC4a1a4a