Ancient population · Iron Age
Beniamin (Early Iron Age, Armenia)
Armenia_Beniamin_EIA
Beniamin (Early Iron Age, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Beniamin_EIA), with 1 sample from Armenia, dated to c. 1140 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia), Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia) and Noratus (Late Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Karata, Tat Azerbaijan and Andian A.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 1140 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Sampled near
- Beniamin 40.69, 43.85
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- AntonioPritchardeLife2024
- Catalogue
Armenia_Beniamin_EIA.SGvariant
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 (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_LBA | 3.70 |
| 2 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Lchashen_LBA | 3.80 |
| 3 | Noratus (Late Bronze Age)Noratus_LBA | 3.87 |
| 4 | Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia)Armenia_UrartianEmpire | 3.99 |
| 5 | Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · ARM_MBAARM_MBA | 4.01 |
| 6 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBAArmenia_LBA | 4.01 |
| 7 | Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)Bagheri_Tchala_EIA | 4.01 |
| 8 | Armenia (Iron Age)Armenia_IA | 4.07 |
| 9 | Armenia (Late Iron Age)Armenia_LIA | 4.07 |
| 10 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)Armenia_LBA_EIA | 4.26 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | KarataKarata | 4.66 |
| 2 | Tat AzerbaijanTat_Azerbaijan | 4.88 |
| 3 | Andian AAndian_A | 4.91 |
| 4 | Azeri DagestanAzeri_Dagestan | 5.02 |
| 5 | Georgian TushGeorgian_Tush | 5.08 |
| 6 | Georgian KhevsGeorgian_Khevs | 5.10 |
| 7 | Tat Dagestan DzhalganTat_Dagestan_Dzhalgan | 5.12 |
| 8 | Georgian North EastGeorgian_NorthEast | 5.21 |
| 9 | Azerbaijani Republic ShakiAzerbaijani_Republic_Shaki | 5.25 |
| 10 | Azerbaijani DagestanAzerbaijani_Dagestan | 5.27 |
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 | Y-DNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
R11668.SG | M | 1213-1055 calBCE | Beniamin | I2a2b I-Y16419 |