Ancient population · Antiquity
Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)
Armenia_LateHellenistic
Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_LateHellenistic), with 2 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 10 BCE – 80 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia), Armenia (Early Medieval) and Hasanlu (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Armenian Syunik, Armenian Artsakh and Armenian Parspatunik.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2; its mtDNA haplogroups include T2h and W3a.
- Period
- Antiquity
- Date
- c. 10 BCE – 80 CE
- Country
- Armenia
- Sampled near
- Aghitu 39.55, 45.08
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Armenia_LateHellenistic
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 | Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible | 2.37 |
| 2 | Armenia (Early Medieval)Armenia_EarlyMedieval | 2.40 |
| 3 | Hasanlu (Iron Age)Hasanlu_IA | 3.14 |
| 4 | Beniamin Achaemenid (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid | 3.25 |
| 5 | Achaemenid Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Achaemenid_Hellenistic | 3.26 |
| 6 | Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IATurkey_IA | 3.30 |
| 7 | Hasanlu (Iron Age, Iran)Iran_Hasanlu_IA | 3.56 |
| 8 | Hajji Firuz (Chalcolithic)Hajji_Firuz_C | 3.56 |
| 9 | Aghitu Ancient (Iron Age)Aghitu_Anc | 3.60 |
| 10 | Mountain JewMountain_Jew | 3.66 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armenian SyunikArmenian_Syunik | 2.19 |
| 2 | Armenian ArtsakhArmenian_Artsakh | 2.27 |
| 3 | Armenian ParspatunikArmenian_Parspatunik | 2.34 |
| 4 | Armenian ErzurumArmenian_Erzurum | 2.38 |
| 5 | Armenian GesariaArmenian_Gesaria | 2.40 |
| 6 | Armenian AraratArmenian_Ararat | 2.41 |
| 7 | Turkish ErzurumTurkish_Erzurum | 2.72 |
| 8 | ArmenianArmenian | 2.80 |
| 9 | AssyrianAssyrian | 2.84 |
| 10 | Mountain Jew DagestanMountain_Jew_Dagestan | 2.93 |
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.