Ancient population · Iron Age

Armenia (Late Iron Age)

Name: Armenia (Late Iron Age) (Armenia_LIA)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_LIA

Armenia (Late Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_LIA), with 4 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 670–620 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b and J2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H13a, H2a, T1 and T2a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 670–620 BCE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Harjis 39.65, 45.95
Sites: Harjis (3)
Sarukhan
Samples: 4
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Armenia_LIA
Armenia_LIA_o3 outliers
Armenia_LIA_o2 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`	0.92
2	Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)`Armenia_LBA_EIA`	1.20
3	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	1.25
4	Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_LBA`	1.64
5	Armenia (Early Iron Age)`Armenia_EIA`	1.94
6	Armenia (Iron Age)`Armenia_IA`	2.02
7	Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)`Bagheri_Tchala_EIA`	2.06
8	Beniamin Urartu (Iron Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_IA`	2.21
9	Noratus (Late Bronze Age)`Noratus_LBA`	2.26
10	Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia)`Armenia_UrartianEmpire`	2.41

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Khevs`Georgian_Khevs`	2.70
2	Georgian Tush`Georgian_Tush`	2.83
3	Andian A`Andian_A`	2.95
4	Tat Azerbaijan`Tat_Azerbaijan`	3.06
5	Karata`Karata`	3.10
6	Udi`Udi`	3.28
7	Tat Dagestan Dzhalgan`Tat_Dagestan_Dzhalgan`	3.30
8	Azerbaijani Dagestan`Azerbaijani_Dagestan`	3.43
9	Azeri Dagestan`Azeri_Dagestan`	3.47
10	Azerbaijani Republic Shaki`Azerbaijani_Republic_Shaki`	3.49

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

E1b1b1b2a1a E-M84
J2b1 J-PF7321

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 10

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
`I18160`	`Armenia_LIA`	F	700-550 BCE	Harjis		H13a2b4
`I18236`	`Armenia_LIA`	F	700-550 BCE	Harjis		T1
`I18237`	`Armenia_LIA`	M	700-550 BCE	Harjis	J2b1 J-PF7321	H2a
`I20444`	`Armenia_LIA`	M	788-551 calBCE	Sarukhan	E1b1b1b2a1a E-M84	T2a1b2b
`I18159` outlier	`Armenia_LIA`	F	700-550 BCE	Harjis		H5
`I18161` outlier	`Armenia_LIA`	M	700-550 BCE	Harjis	I2a2b I-Y16419	U3b3
`I18238` outlier	`Armenia_LIA`	M	700-550 BCE	Harjis	R1b1a1b1b R-A12332	N1a1b1
`I20437` outlier	`Armenia_LIA_o3`	F	157 calBCE - 7 calCE	Sarukhan		T1a9
`I20438` outlier	`Armenia_LIA_o2`	F	161 calBCE - 8 calCE	Sarukhan		C5c
`I20442` outlier	`Armenia_LIA_o3`	F	220-330 calCE	Sarukhan		N1b1a