Ancient population · Iron Age

Armenia (Early Iron Age)

Name: Armenia (Early Iron Age) (Armenia_EIA)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_EIA

Armenia (Early Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_EIA), with 6 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 1100–620 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (4); its mtDNA haplogroups include H14a, T2, T2b and U3c.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 1100–620 BCE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Pidjut 41.03, 44.73
Sites: Pidjut (4)
Bover II Cemetery (2)
Samples: 6
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Armenia_EIA
Armenia_EIA_o2 outliers
Armenia_EIA_oSouth outliers

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`	1.44
2	Armenia (Iron Age)`Armenia_IA`	1.46
3	Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)`Armenia_LBA_EIA`	1.74
4	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	1.80
5	Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)`Bagheri_Tchala_EIA`	1.93
6	Armenia (Late Iron Age)`Armenia_LIA`	1.94
7	Beniamin Urartu (Iron Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_IA`	2.39
8	Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBA`Armenia_MBA`	2.39
9	Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_LBA`	2.66
10	Bover Urartian (Iron Age)`Bover_Urartian`	2.77

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Khevs`Georgian_Khevs`	1.73
2	Georgian Tush`Georgian_Tush`	1.96
3	Andian A`Andian_A`	2.55
4	Karata`Karata`	2.85
5	Georgian North East`Georgian_NorthEast`	3.20
6	Georgian Kart`Georgian_Kart`	3.23
7	Hinukh`Hinukh`	3.31
8	Georgian Mtiuleti`Georgian_Mtiuleti`	3.51
9	Udi`Udi`	3.52
10	Georgian Kakh`Georgian_Kakh`	3.62

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

R1b1a1b1b R-Y159888 4

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 8

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.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I16116`	`Armenia_EIA`	F	1150-1050 BCE	Bover II Cemetery		H14a
`I16117`	`Armenia_EIA`	M	765-489 calBCE	Bover II Cemetery	R1b1a1b1b R-Y159888	U3c
`I16191`	`Armenia_EIA`	M	779-549 calBCE	Pidjut	R1b1a1b1b R-Y159888	U7a
`I16193`	`Armenia_EIA`	M	800-550 BCE	Pidjut	R1b1a1b1b R-FGC14590	T2
`I17180`	`Armenia_EIA`	M	755-420 calBCE	Pidjut	R1b1a1b1b R-Y19434	U4d3
`I17181`	`Armenia_EIA`	F	776-545 calBCE	Pidjut		T2b
`I16194` outlier	`Armenia_EIA_o2`	M	800-550 BCE	Pidjut	R1b1a1b1b R-FGC14590	K3
`I19322` outlier	`Armenia_EIA_oSouth`	F	777-544 calBCE	Noratus		X2