Ancient population · Iron Age

Beniamin (Iron Age, Armenia)

Name: Beniamin (Iron Age, Armenia) (Armenia_Beniamin_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_Beniamin_IA

Beniamin (Iron Age, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Beniamin_IA), with 1 sample from Armenia, dated to c. 980 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Armenia (Late Iron Age), Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age) and Lchashen Metsamor (Late Bronze Age, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Georgian Khevs, Andian A and Udi.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 980 BCE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Beniamin 40.69, 43.85
Samples: 1
Published in: AntonioPritchardeLife2024
Catalogue: Armenia_Beniamin_IA.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 (Late Iron Age)`Armenia_LIA`	2.78
2	Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)`Armenia_LBA_EIA`	2.80
3	Lchashen Metsamor (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_LBA_LchashenMetsamor`	2.92
4	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age)`Lchashen_LBA`	2.94
5	Nerkin Getashen (Late Bronze Age)`Nerkin_Getashen_LBA`	2.95
6	Bover Urartian (Iron Age)`Bover_Urartian`	2.96
7	Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA`Armenia_LBA`	3.01
8	Beniamin Urartu (Iron Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_IA`	3.15
9	Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBA`Armenia_MBA`	3.18
10	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	3.25

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Khevs`Georgian_Khevs`	3.85
2	Andian A`Andian_A`	3.87
3	Udi`Udi`	3.91
4	Georgian Tush`Georgian_Tush`	3.97
5	Azerbaijani Republic Shaki`Azerbaijani_Republic_Shaki`	4.16
6	Tat Dagestan Dzhalgan`Tat_Dagestan_Dzhalgan`	4.17
7	Tat Azerbaijan`Tat_Azerbaijan`	4.19
8	Azerbaijani Dagestan`Azerbaijani_Dagestan`	4.25
9	Azeri Dagestan`Azeri_Dagestan`	4.46
10	Karata`Karata`	4.49

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

I2a2b I-Y16419

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
`R11536.SG`	M	1047-926 calBCE	Beniamin	I2a2b I-Y16419