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Beniamin Achaemenid (Antiquity, Armenia)

Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid

Beniamin Achaemenid (Antiquity, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid), with 1 sample from Armenia, dated to c. 390 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia), Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia) and Armenia (Early Medieval); the nearest living populations are Armenian Parspatunik, Greek Trabzon and Turkish Trabzon.

Period
Antiquity
Date
c. 390 BCE
Country
Armenia
Sampled near
Beniamin 40.69, 43.85
Samples
1
Catalogue
Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid.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
#PopulationDistance
1Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible2.71
2Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_LateHellenistic3.25
3Armenia (Early Medieval)Armenia_EarlyMedieval3.60
4Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian3.88
5Greek CappadociaGreek_Cappadocia4.02
6Achaemenid Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Achaemenid_Hellenistic4.16
7Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IATurkey_IA4.17
8Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_SoutheastByzantine4.21
9Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Antiquity4.37
10Turkey (Medieval)Turkey_Medieval4.53
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Armenian ParspatunikArmenian_Parspatunik2.59
2Greek TrabzonGreek_Trabzon2.64
3Turkish TrabzonTurkish_Trabzon2.98
4Armenian GesariaArmenian_Gesaria2.99
5Armenian ErzurumArmenian_Erzurum3.16
6Armenian SyunikArmenian_Syunik3.17
7Armenian AraratArmenian_Ararat3.22
8Armenian HemsheniArmenian_Hemsheni3.35
9ArmenianArmenian3.40
10Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa3.51

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.

SampleSexDateSite
R11540.SGF405-380 calBCEBeniamin