Ancient population · Neolithic

Aknashen (Neolithic, Armenia)

Name: Aknashen (Neolithic, Armenia) (Armenia_Aknashen_N)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_Aknashen_N

Aknashen (Neolithic, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Aknashen_N), with 1 sample from Armenia, dated to c. 5910 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kura Araxes Talin (Early Bronze Age, Armenia), Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia) and Kura-Araxes Berkaber (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Georgian Meskheti, Armenian Hemsheni and Georgian Samtckhe.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is I1.

Period: Neolithic
Date: c. 5910 BCE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Aknashen 40.10, 44.29
Samples: 1
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Armenia_Aknashen_N

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	Kura Araxes Talin (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Talin`	3.73
2	Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Antiquity`	4.24
3	Kura-Araxes Berkaber (Bronze Age)`Kura-Araxes_Berkaber`	4.26
4	Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Berkaber`	4.26
5	Kura Araxes Karnut (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Karnut`	4.33
6	Hajji Firuz (Neolithic, Iran)`Iran_HajjiFiruz_N`	4.40
7	Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan`	4.49
8	Hajji Firuz (Chalcolithic)`Hajji_Firuz_C`	4.49
9	Kura-Araxes Talin (Bronze Age)`Kura-Araxes_Talin`	4.61
10	Beniamin Artaxiad Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Artaxiad_Roman_possible`	4.61

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Meskheti`Georgian_Meskheti`	4.43
2	Armenian Hemsheni`Armenian_Hemsheni`	4.75
3	Georgian Samtckhe`Georgian_Samtckhe`	4.80
4	Georgian Javakheti`Georgian_Javakheti`	4.80
5	Armenian Gurin`Armenian_Gurin`	4.82
6	Georgian Kakh`Georgian_Kakh`	4.84
7	Udi`Udi`	5.21
8	Kurd USSR`Kurd_USSR`	5.27
9	Kurdish`Kurdish`	5.27
10	Armenian Ararat`Armenian_Ararat`	5.39

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J2a1a1b1a1a J-PF5174

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I3931`	M	5985-5836 calBCE	Aknashen	J2a1a1b1a1a J-PF5174	I1