Ancient population · Antiquity

Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)

Name: Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia) (Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible

Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible), with 5 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 50 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Armenia (Early Medieval), Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia) and Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Armenian Ararat, Armenian Syunik and Armenian Erzurum.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a, J2a and L1a.

Period: Antiquity
Date: c. 50 CE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Beniamin 40.69, 43.85
Samples: 5
Published in: AntonioPritchardeLife2024
Catalogue: Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible.SG variant

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	Armenia (Early Medieval)`Armenia_EarlyMedieval`	2.13
2	Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_LateHellenistic`	2.37
3	Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian`	2.43
4	Beniamin Achaemenid (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid`	2.71
5	Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IA`Turkey_IA`	2.80
6	Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_PostMedieval`	2.97
7	Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_SoutheastByzantine`	2.99
8	Achaemenid Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Achaemenid_Hellenistic`	3.05
9	Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Antiquity`	3.13
10	Caucasus lowlands (Late Neolithic, Azerbaijan)`Azerbaijan_Caucasus_lowlands_LN`	3.20

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Armenian Ararat`Armenian_Ararat`	1.62
2	Armenian Syunik`Armenian_Syunik`	1.64
3	Armenian Erzurum`Armenian_Erzurum`	1.73
4	Armenian Gesaria`Armenian_Gesaria`	1.75
5	Armenian`Armenian`	1.92
6	Greek Trabzon`Greek_Trabzon`	1.97
7	Armenian Parspatunik`Armenian_Parspatunik`	2.13
8	Turkish Trabzon`Turkish_Trabzon`	2.18
9	Armenian Aintab`Armenian_Aintab`	2.30
10	Armenian Urfa`Armenian_Urfa`	2.38

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

J1a2b1 J-Y3476
J2a1a1a2b2a2b2 J-Y15913
L1a L-Y261585

Individuals 5

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
`R11651.SG`	M	450 BCE - 550 CE	Beniamin	J1a2b1 J-Y3476
`R11653.SG`	M	450 BCE - 550 CE	Beniamin	L1a L-Y261585
`R11678.SG`	F	450 BCE - 550 CE	Beniamin
`R11713.SG`	M	450 BCE - 550 CE	Beniamin	J2a1a1a2b2a2b2 J-Y15913
`R11714.SG`	F	450 BCE - 550 CE	Beniamin