Ancient population · Antiquity
Beniamin Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)
Armenia_Beniamin_Hellenistic
Beniamin Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Beniamin_Hellenistic), with 1 sample from Armenia, dated to c. 80 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Hasanlu (Middle Bronze Age), Hasanlu (Middle Bronze Age, Iran) and Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Armenian Gurin, Georgian Meskheti and Georgian Jew.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b.
- Period
- Antiquity
- Date
- c. 80 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Sampled near
- Beniamin 40.69, 43.85
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- AntonioPritchardeLife2024
- Catalogue
Armenia_Beniamin_Hellenistic.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 | Hasanlu (Middle Bronze Age)Hasanlu_MBA | 2.89 |
| 2 | Hasanlu (Middle Bronze Age, Iran)Iran_Hasanlu_MBA | 3.23 |
| 3 | Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian | 3.41 |
| 4 | Hasanlu (Iron Age, Iran)Iran_Hasanlu_IA | 3.81 |
| 5 | Beniamin Artaxiad Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Artaxiad_Roman_possible | 3.84 |
| 6 | Hasanlu (Iron Age)Hasanlu_IA | 3.95 |
| 7 | Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_SoutheastByzantine | 3.96 |
| 8 | Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IATurkey_IA | 3.96 |
| 9 | Armenia (Early Medieval)Armenia_EarlyMedieval | 4.06 |
| 10 | Mountain JewMountain_Jew | 4.11 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armenian GurinArmenian_Gurin | 2.37 |
| 2 | Georgian MeskhetiGeorgian_Meskheti | 2.64 |
| 3 | Georgian JewGeorgian_Jew | 3.30 |
| 4 | AssyrianAssyrian | 3.49 |
| 5 | Assyrian MardinAssyrian_Mardin | 3.50 |
| 6 | Armenian AintabArmenian_Aintab | 3.54 |
| 7 | UdiUdi | 3.55 |
| 8 | ArmenianArmenian | 3.57 |
| 9 | Armenian SyunikArmenian_Syunik | 3.65 |
| 10 | Armenian ErzurumArmenian_Erzurum | 3.65 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
R11546.SG | M | 156-1 calBCE | Beniamin | R1b1a1b1b R-BY184752 |