Ancient population · Bronze Age
Lchashen Metsamor (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)
Armenia_LBA_LchashenMetsamor
Lchashen Metsamor (Late Bronze Age, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_LBA_LchashenMetsamor), with 2 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 1310–1250 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Lchashen (Late Bronze Age), Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age) and Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA; the nearest living populations are Azerbaijani Dagestan, Tat Azerbaijan and Tat Dagestan Dzhalgan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include HV0a and J1b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1310–1250 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Sampled near
- Lchashen 40.52, 44.93
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
- Catalogue
Armenia_LBA_LchashenMetsamor.SGvariant
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 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age)Lchashen_LBA | 0.54 |
| 2 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)Armenia_LBA_EIA | 2.48 |
| 3 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBAArmenia_LBA | 2.59 |
| 4 | Armenia (Late Iron Age)Armenia_LIA | 2.75 |
| 5 | Beniamin (Iron Age, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_IA | 2.92 |
| 6 | Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBAArmenia_MBA | 3.04 |
| 7 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Lchashen_LBA | 3.06 |
| 8 | Armenia (Early Iron Age)Armenia_EIA | 3.10 |
| 9 | Bover Urartian (Iron Age)Bover_Urartian | 3.16 |
| 10 | Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_LBA | 3.17 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azerbaijani DagestanAzerbaijani_Dagestan | 3.02 |
| 2 | Tat AzerbaijanTat_Azerbaijan | 3.07 |
| 3 | Tat Dagestan DzhalganTat_Dagestan_Dzhalgan | 3.17 |
| 4 | Azeri DagestanAzeri_Dagestan | 3.27 |
| 5 | Azerbaijani Republic ShakiAzerbaijani_Republic_Shaki | 3.42 |
| 6 | Azerbaijani Republic GabalaAzerbaijani_Republic_Gabala | 3.45 |
| 7 | Georgian KhevsGeorgian_Khevs | 3.62 |
| 8 | Andian AAndian_A | 3.73 |
| 9 | KumykKumyk | 3.81 |
| 10 | Tat Dagestan NyugdiTat_Dagestan_Nyugdi | 3.87 |
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.