Ancient population · Bronze Age

Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)

Name: Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia) (Armenia_Lchashen_LBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_Lchashen_LBA

Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Lchashen_LBA), with 12 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 1350–1200 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H13a (2), N1b (2), T2h (2) and H20.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1350–1200 BCE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Lchashen 40.52, 44.93
Samples: 12
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Armenia_Lchashen_LBA
Armenia_Lchashen_LBA_o 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`	0.88
2	Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)`Armenia_LBA_EIA`	1.14
3	Armenia (Late Iron Age)`Armenia_LIA`	1.25
4	Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)`Bagheri_Tchala_EIA`	1.53
5	Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_LBA`	1.61
6	Armenia (Iron Age)`Armenia_IA`	1.66
7	Armenia (Early Iron Age)`Armenia_EIA`	1.80
8	Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia)`Armenia_UrartianEmpire`	2.16
9	Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBA`Armenia_MBA`	2.21
10	Noratus (Late Bronze Age)`Noratus_LBA`	2.27

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Tush`Georgian_Tush`	2.40
2	Georgian Khevs`Georgian_Khevs`	2.44
3	Karata`Karata`	2.49
4	Andian A`Andian_A`	3.05
5	Tat Dagestan Dzhalgan`Tat_Dagestan_Dzhalgan`	3.35
6	Hinukh`Hinukh`	3.37
7	Tat Azerbaijan`Tat_Azerbaijan`	3.44
8	Georgian North East`Georgian_NorthEast`	3.58
9	Chechen`Chechen`	3.68
10	Azerbaijani Dagestan`Azerbaijani_Dagestan`	3.70

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

I2a2b I-Y16419 2

mtDNA

12 individuals with a call

Individuals 13

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
`I18267`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	F	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen		H3
`I18269`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	F	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen		H13a2c1
`I18270`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	F	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen		H20
`I18271`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	F	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen		W1
`I18272`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	F	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen		N1b1a3
`I18274`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	F	1250-1150 BCE	Lchashen		H4a1a1a
`I18275`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	F	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen		T2h
`I18276`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	M	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen	I2a2b I-Y16419	N1b1a3
`I18277`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	M	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen	I2a2b I-Y16419	H13a1a2
`I18278`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	F	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen		T2h
`I18279`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	F	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen		J1b1b1
`I18280`	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	F	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen		U2e2a1
`I18273` outlier	`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA_o`	F	1450-1250 BCE	Lchashen		H