Ancient population · Bronze Age
Kura Araxes Kaps (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)
Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kaps
Kura Araxes Kaps (Early Bronze Age, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kaps), with 2 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 2740–2570 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia), Kura-Araxes Kaps and Kura Araxes Karnut (Early Bronze Age, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Georgian Javakheti, Georgian Kart and Georgian Ajar.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2b; its mtDNA haplogroup is K3.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2740–2570 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Sampled near
- Kaps 40.87, 43.72
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- AkbariReichNature2026
WangHaakNatComm2019 - Catalogue
Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kaps
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 | 2.20 |
| 2 | Kura-Araxes KapsKura-Araxes_Kaps | 2.26 |
| 3 | Kura Araxes Karnut (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Karnut | 2.38 |
| 4 | Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan | 2.52 |
| 5 | Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_Maikop_Novosvobodnaya | 2.89 |
| 6 | Maykop Late (Bronze Age)Maykop_Late | 3.09 |
| 7 | Kura-Araxes Berkaber (Bronze Age)Kura-Araxes_Berkaber | 3.49 |
| 8 | Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_LateMaikop | 3.65 |
| 9 | Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Antiquity | 3.74 |
| 10 | Kura Araxes Talin (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Talin | 3.98 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgian JavakhetiGeorgian_Javakheti | 2.94 |
| 2 | Georgian KartGeorgian_Kart | 3.04 |
| 3 | Georgian AjarGeorgian_Ajar | 3.22 |
| 4 | Georgian KakhGeorgian_Kakh | 3.23 |
| 5 | Georgian ImerGeorgian_Imer | 3.32 |
| 6 | Turkish AhiskaTurkish_Ahiska | 3.48 |
| 7 | Georgian WestGeorgian_West | 3.59 |
| 8 | Georgian GuriaGeorgian_Guria | 3.67 |
| 9 | Georgian SamtckheGeorgian_Samtckhe | 3.73 |
| 10 | Georgian LazGeorgian_Laz | 3.76 |
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.