Ancient population · Bronze Age

Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBA

Name: Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBA (Armenia_MBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_MBA

Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBA is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_MBA), with 4 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 1450–1150 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Armenia (Late Bronze Age–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 Karata.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b, J2a and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a, T1a, T2a and U1a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1450–1150 BCE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Karashamb 40.45, 44.41
Sites: Karashamb
Katnaghbiur-1
Keti
Nerkin-Getashen
Samples: 4
Published in: LazaridisReichNature2016
LazaridisReichScience2022
AllentoftWillerslevNature2015
Catalogue: Armenia_MBA
Armenia_MBA.SG variant
Armenia_MBA_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–Early Iron Age)`Armenia_LBA_EIA`	1.98
2	Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA`Armenia_LBA`	2.06
3	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	2.21
4	Armenia (Early Iron Age)`Armenia_EIA`	2.39
5	Armenia (Iron Age)`Armenia_IA`	2.53
6	Armenia (Late Iron Age)`Armenia_LIA`	2.53
7	Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_LBA`	2.57
8	Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · ARM_LBA`ARM_LBA`	2.67
9	Noratus (Late Bronze Age)`Noratus_LBA`	2.79
10	Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)`Bagheri_Tchala_EIA`	2.87

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Khevs`Georgian_Khevs`	2.92
2	Georgian Tush`Georgian_Tush`	3.02
3	Karata`Karata`	3.20
4	Andian A`Andian_A`	3.29
5	Chechen`Chechen`	3.72
6	Ingushian`Ingushian`	3.83
7	Hinukh`Hinukh`	3.86
8	Tat Dagestan Dzhalgan`Tat_Dagestan_Dzhalgan`	3.90
9	Adygei`Adygei`	3.93
10	Azerbaijani Dagestan`Azerbaijani_Dagestan`	4.07

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

E1b1b1b2a1a E-Y5413
J2a1a1a2a J-Z7515
R1b1a1b1b R-FGC14590

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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
`I1656`	`Armenia_MBA`	F	1502-1402 calBCE	Katnaghbiur-1		T1a2
`I17183`	`Armenia_MBA`	M	1398-1228 calBCE	Keti	J2a1a1a2a J-Z7515	K1a4c
`I19340`	`Armenia_MBA`	M	1400-900 BCE	Karashamb	R1b1a1b1b R-FGC14590	U1a1a1a
`RISE423_noUDG.SG`	`Armenia_MBA.SG`	M	1407-1211 calBCE	Nerkin-Getashen	E1b1b1b2a1a E-Y5413	T2a
`I16120` outlier	`Armenia_MBA_o`	M	1500-1350 BCE	Dzori-Gekh	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Z2317	T2g1a