Ancient population · Iron Age

Armenia (Iron Age)

Name: Armenia (Iron Age) (Armenia_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_IA

Armenia (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_IA), with 7 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 1050–650 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (3), G2a and G2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H28, H2a, HV1 and N1b.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 1050–650 BCE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Brardzryal 40.79, 44.31
Sites: Brardzryal (3)
Karmir Blur
Karnut
Keti
Lori-Berd
Samples: 7
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Armenia_IA
Armenia_IA_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 (Early Iron Age)`Armenia_EIA`	1.46
2	Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA`Armenia_LBA`	1.63
3	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	1.66
4	Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)`Bagheri_Tchala_EIA`	1.80
5	Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)`Armenia_LBA_EIA`	1.98
6	Armenia (Late Iron Age)`Armenia_LIA`	2.02
7	Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia)`Armenia_UrartianEmpire`	2.32
8	Beniamin Urartu (Iron Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_IA`	2.38
9	Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_LBA`	2.48
10	Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBA`Armenia_MBA`	2.53

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Khevs`Georgian_Khevs`	1.82
2	Georgian Tush`Georgian_Tush`	1.85
3	Andian A`Andian_A`	2.16
4	Georgian North East`Georgian_NorthEast`	2.50
5	Karata`Karata`	2.59
6	Georgian Kart`Georgian_Kart`	2.82
7	Georgian Mtiuleti`Georgian_Mtiuleti`	3.27
8	Udi`Udi`	3.30
9	Turkish Ahiska`Turkish_Ahiska`	3.35
10	Georgian Kakh`Georgian_Kakh`	3.44

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

7 men with a call

R1b1a1b1b R-Y19434 3
G2a G-P15
G2b2 G-FGC2964
J1a2b1 J-Z1842
J2 J-M410

mtDNA

7 individuals with a call

Individuals 9

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
`I13947`	`Armenia_IA`	M	789-546 calBCE	Lori-Berd	J1a2b1 J-Z1842	T2e
`I14054`	`Armenia_IA`	M	809-596 calBCE	Brardzryal	R1b1a1b1b R-Y19434	N1b1a
`I14057`	`Armenia_IA`	M	776-545 calBCE	Brardzryal	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	HV1
`I16536`	`Armenia_IA`	M	897-798 calBCE	Brardzryal	J2 J-M410	H2a
`I16707`	`Armenia_IA`	M	931-816 calBCE	Karnut	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	R1a1a
`I17184`	`Armenia_IA`	M	783-549 calBCE	Keti	G2a G-P15	U1a1a1
`I3938`	`Armenia_IA`	M	1124-939 calBCE	Karmir Blur	G2b2 G-FGC2964	H28
`I17308` outlier	`Armenia_IA_oSouth`	M	394-208 calBCE	Keti	R1a1a1 R-M417	X2d1
`I19327` outlier	`Armenia_IA_oSouth`	M	370-197 calBCE	Noratus	G2a2a2 G-Z36520	K1a19