Ancient population · Bronze Age

Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)

Name: Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia) (Armenia_Beniamin_LBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_Beniamin_LBA

Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Beniamin_LBA), with 2 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 1420–1330 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia), Armenia (Late Iron Age) and Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA; the nearest living populations are Karata, Tat Dagestan Dzhalgan and Georgian Khevs.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1420–1330 BCE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Beniamin 40.69, 43.85
Samples: 2
Published in: AntonioPritchardeLife2024
Catalogue: Armenia_Beniamin_LBA.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	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	1.61
2	Armenia (Late Iron Age)`Armenia_LIA`	1.64
3	Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA`Armenia_LBA`	1.65
4	Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)`Armenia_LBA_EIA`	1.65
5	Noratus (Late Bronze Age)`Noratus_LBA`	2.02
6	Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · ARM_LBA`ARM_LBA`	2.17
7	Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)`Bagheri_Tchala_EIA`	2.28
8	Armenia (Iron Age)`Armenia_IA`	2.48
9	Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia)`Armenia_UrartianEmpire`	2.52
10	Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBA`Armenia_MBA`	2.57

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Karata`Karata`	2.61
2	Tat Dagestan Dzhalgan`Tat_Dagestan_Dzhalgan`	2.84
3	Georgian Khevs`Georgian_Khevs`	3.02
4	Georgian Tush`Georgian_Tush`	3.13
5	Hinukh`Hinukh`	3.38
6	Tat Azerbaijan`Tat_Azerbaijan`	3.44
7	Azerbaijani Dagestan`Azerbaijani_Dagestan`	3.53
8	Chechen`Chechen`	3.54
9	Azeri Dagestan`Azeri_Dagestan`	3.57
10	Tsez A`Tsez_A`	3.62

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

E1b1b1b2a1a1a1a1e1 E-FT278388

Individuals 2

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
`R11545.SG`	F	1398-1261 calBCE	Beniamin
`R11675.SG`	M	1492-1325 calBCE	Beniamin	E1b1b1b2a1a1a1a1e1 E-FT278388