Ancient population · Chalcolithic
Areni (Chalcolithic, Armenia)
Armenia_C_Areni
Areni (Chalcolithic, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_C_Areni), with 2 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 4210–4130 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Armenia (Early Medieval), Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia) and Turkish East; the nearest living populations are Armenian Artsakh, Armenian Parspatunik and Udi.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup L1a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H2a and K.
- Period
- Chalcolithic
- Date
- c. 4210–4130 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Sampled near
- Areni-1 39.73, 45.20
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- LazaridisReichNature2016
- Catalogue
Armenia_C_Areni
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 | Armenia (Early Medieval)Armenia_EarlyMedieval | 3.64 |
| 2 | Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia)Armenia_UrartianEmpire | 3.85 |
| 3 | Turkish EastTurkish_East | 3.96 |
| 4 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Lchashen_LBA | 3.98 |
| 5 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBAArmenia_LBA | 4.01 |
| 6 | Armenia (Iron Age)Armenia_IA | 4.03 |
| 7 | Armenia (Late Iron Age)Armenia_LIA | 4.04 |
| 8 | Aghitu Ancient (Iron Age)Aghitu_Anc | 4.17 |
| 9 | Beniamin Urartu (Iron Age, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_IA | 4.19 |
| 10 | Achaemenid Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Achaemenid_Hellenistic | 4.19 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armenian ArtsakhArmenian_Artsakh | 3.27 |
| 2 | Armenian ParspatunikArmenian_Parspatunik | 3.58 |
| 3 | UdiUdi | 3.61 |
| 4 | Armenian SyunikArmenian_Syunik | 3.82 |
| 5 | Turkish ErzurumTurkish_Erzurum | 3.89 |
| 6 | Azerbaijani Republic ShakiAzerbaijani_Republic_Shaki | 4.03 |
| 7 | TurkishTurkish | 4.06 |
| 8 | Andian AAndian_A | 4.13 |
| 9 | Alevi DersimAlevi_Dersim | 4.25 |
| 10 | Armenian GesariaArmenian_Gesaria | 4.27 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 4
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.