Ancient population · Antiquity
Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia)
Armenia_Antiquity
Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Antiquity), with 1 sample from Armenia, dated to c. 100 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia), Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia) and Kura-Araxes Talin (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Georgian Samtckhe, Armenian Hemsheni and Georgian Kakh.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is U7b.
- Period
- Antiquity
- Date
- c. 100 CE
- Country
- Armenia
- Sampled near
- Vardbakh 40.16, 44.49
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Armenia_Antiquity
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 | Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian | 2.83 |
| 2 | Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible | 3.13 |
| 3 | Kura-Araxes Talin (Bronze Age)Kura-Araxes_Talin | 3.22 |
| 4 | Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Berkaber | 3.22 |
| 5 | Armenia (Early Medieval)Armenia_EarlyMedieval | 3.45 |
| 6 | Kura Araxes Talin (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Talin | 3.49 |
| 7 | Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan | 3.55 |
| 8 | Achaemenid Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Achaemenid_Hellenistic | 3.63 |
| 9 | Kura Araxes Kaps (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kaps | 3.74 |
| 10 | Hajji Firuz (Chalcolithic)Hajji_Firuz_C | 3.80 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgian SamtckheGeorgian_Samtckhe | 2.55 |
| 2 | Armenian HemsheniArmenian_Hemsheni | 2.61 |
| 3 | Georgian KakhGeorgian_Kakh | 2.80 |
| 4 | Turkish ErzurumTurkish_Erzurum | 2.93 |
| 5 | Georgian LazGeorgian_Laz | 2.99 |
| 6 | Armenian SyunikArmenian_Syunik | 3.13 |
| 7 | Georgian KartGeorgian_Kart | 3.13 |
| 8 | Turkish TrabzonTurkish_Trabzon | 3.20 |
| 9 | Georgian JavakhetiGeorgian_Javakheti | 3.21 |
| 10 | Greek TrabzonGreek_Trabzon | 3.25 |
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I10252 | F | 100 BCE - 300 CE | Vardbakh | U7b |