Ancient population · Iron Age

Beniamin Urartu (Iron Age, Armenia)

Name: Beniamin Urartu (Iron Age, Armenia) (Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_IA

Beniamin Urartu (Iron Age, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_IA), with 1 sample from Armenia, dated to c. 790 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 790 BCE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Beniamin 40.69, 43.85
Samples: 1
Published in: AntonioPritchardeLife2024
Catalogue: Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_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 Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA`Armenia_LBA`	2.10
2	Armenia (Late Iron Age)`Armenia_LIA`	2.21
3	Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)`Armenia_LBA_EIA`	2.25
4	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	2.31
5	Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia)`Armenia_UrartianEmpire`	2.38
6	Armenia (Iron Age)`Armenia_IA`	2.38
7	Armenia (Early Iron Age)`Armenia_EIA`	2.39
8	Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)`Bagheri_Tchala_EIA`	2.63
9	Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_LBA`	2.86
10	Noratus (Late Bronze Age)`Noratus_LBA`	2.91

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Khevs`Georgian_Khevs`	3.08
2	Udi`Udi`	3.16
3	Andian A`Andian_A`	3.21
4	Georgian Tush`Georgian_Tush`	3.39
5	Azerbaijani Republic Shaki`Azerbaijani_Republic_Shaki`	3.88
6	Georgian Kart`Georgian_Kart`	3.91
7	Armenian Artsakh`Armenian_Artsakh`	3.96
8	Karata`Karata`	4.02
9	Georgian Kakh`Georgian_Kakh`	4.03
10	Tat Azerbaijan`Tat_Azerbaijan`	4.03

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1b R-FT31418

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
`R11535.SG`	M	801-774 calBCE	Beniamin	R1b1a1b1b R-FT31418