Ancient population · Antiquity
Achaemenid Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)
Armenia_Achaemenid_Hellenistic
Achaemenid Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Achaemenid_Hellenistic), with 1 sample from Armenia, dated to c. 340 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Turkish East, Hasanlu (Iron Age) and Armenia (Early Medieval); the nearest living populations are Turkish Erzurum, Armenian Artsakh and Armenian Syunik.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup L1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is U3b.
- Period
- Antiquity
- Date
- c. 340 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Sampled near
- Karmir Blur 40.15, 44.45
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Armenia_Achaemenid_Hellenistic
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 | Turkish EastTurkish_East | 2.94 |
| 2 | Hasanlu (Iron Age)Hasanlu_IA | 3.01 |
| 3 | Armenia (Early Medieval)Armenia_EarlyMedieval | 3.03 |
| 4 | Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible | 3.05 |
| 5 | Hasanlu (Iron Age, Iran)Iran_Hasanlu_IA | 3.13 |
| 6 | Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_LateHellenistic | 3.26 |
| 7 | Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Antiquity | 3.63 |
| 8 | Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian | 3.83 |
| 9 | Ganj Dareh Historic (Antiquity, Iran)Iran_GanjDareh_Historic | 4.07 |
| 10 | Beniamin Achaemenid (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid | 4.16 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish ErzurumTurkish_Erzurum | 2.23 |
| 2 | Armenian ArtsakhArmenian_Artsakh | 2.47 |
| 3 | Armenian SyunikArmenian_Syunik | 2.64 |
| 4 | Kurd Zaza TurkeyKurd_Zaza_Turkey | 2.91 |
| 5 | UdiUdi | 2.91 |
| 6 | Alevi DersimAlevi_Dersim | 2.98 |
| 7 | Armenian ParspatunikArmenian_Parspatunik | 3.09 |
| 8 | Azerbaijani Republic ShakiAzerbaijani_Republic_Shaki | 3.14 |
| 9 | Kurd Kurmanji TurkeyKurd_Kurmanji_Turkey | 3.20 |
| 10 | Andian AAndian_A | 3.36 |
Haplogroups
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.