Ancient population · Bronze Age
Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)
Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan
Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan), with 2 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 2530–2510 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia), Kura-Araxes Berkaber (Bronze Age) and Kura Araxes Kaps (Early Bronze Age, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Georgian Kakh, Georgian Javakheti and Georgian Kart.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1u and X2f.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2530–2510 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Sampled near
- Kalavan 40.65, 45.12
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- LazaridisReichNature2016
- Catalogue
Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan
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 | Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Berkaber | 1.72 |
| 2 | Kura-Araxes Berkaber (Bronze Age)Kura-Araxes_Berkaber | 2.19 |
| 3 | Kura Araxes Kaps (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kaps | 2.52 |
| 4 | Kura-Araxes KapsKura-Araxes_Kaps | 2.75 |
| 5 | Maykop Late (Bronze Age)Maykop_Late | 2.89 |
| 6 | Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_Maikop_Novosvobodnaya | 2.92 |
| 7 | Kura Araxes Karnut (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Karnut | 2.92 |
| 8 | Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_LateMaikop | 2.96 |
| 9 | Kura Araxes Talin (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Talin | 3.20 |
| 10 | Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Antiquity | 3.55 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgian KakhGeorgian_Kakh | 2.69 |
| 2 | Georgian JavakhetiGeorgian_Javakheti | 3.06 |
| 3 | Georgian KartGeorgian_Kart | 3.07 |
| 4 | Andian AAndian_A | 3.11 |
| 5 | Georgian SamtckheGeorgian_Samtckhe | 3.28 |
| 6 | Turkish AhiskaTurkish_Ahiska | 3.36 |
| 7 | Georgian AjarGeorgian_Ajar | 3.61 |
| 8 | Georgian ImerGeorgian_Imer | 3.66 |
| 9 | Georgian WestGeorgian_West | 3.73 |
| 10 | Georgian LechkhumiGeorgian_Lechkhumi | 3.73 |
Haplogroups
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.