Ancient population · Iron Age

Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia)

Name: Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia) (Armenia_UrartianEmpire)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_UrartianEmpire

Urartian Empire (Iron Age, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_UrartianEmpire), with 3 samples from Armenia, dated to c. 860–650 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include I, K1a and U1a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 860–650 BCE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Karmir Blur 40.15, 44.45
Samples: 3
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Armenia_UrartianEmpire
Armenia_UrartianEmpire_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	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	2.16
2	Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA`Armenia_LBA`	2.20
3	Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)`Bagheri_Tchala_EIA`	2.23
4	Armenia (Iron Age)`Armenia_IA`	2.32
5	Beniamin Urartu (Iron Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_IA`	2.38
6	Armenia (Late Iron Age)`Armenia_LIA`	2.41
7	Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)`Armenia_LBA_EIA`	2.43
8	Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_LBA`	2.52
9	Armenia (Early Iron Age)`Armenia_EIA`	2.79
10	Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · ARM_LBA`ARM_LBA`	2.93

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Tush`Georgian_Tush`	3.16
2	Georgian Khevs`Georgian_Khevs`	3.19
3	Karata`Karata`	3.23
4	Andian A`Andian_A`	3.39
5	Georgian North East`Georgian_NorthEast`	3.59
6	Udi`Udi`	3.81
7	Tat Azerbaijan`Tat_Azerbaijan`	3.86
8	Georgian Kart`Georgian_Kart`	3.98
9	Azerbaijani Republic Shaki`Azerbaijani_Republic_Shaki`	3.99
10	Armenian Artsakh`Armenian_Artsakh`	3.99

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J1a2b1 J-Y140368

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

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
`I11855`	`Armenia_UrartianEmpire`	F	902-812 calBCE	Karmir Blur		I
`I13031`	`Armenia_UrartianEmpire`	M	891-793 calBCE	Karmir Blur	J1a2b1 J-Y140368	U1a1a1
`I16118`	`Armenia_UrartianEmpire`	F	700-600 BCE	Karmir Blur		K1a4f1
`I13035` outlier	`Armenia_UrartianEmpire_o`	M	752-417 calBCE	Karmir Blur	R1b1a1b R-M269	H8b