Ancient population · Chalcolithic
Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic)
Arslantepe_LC
Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Arslantepe_LC), with 2 samples from Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, dated to c. 3430–3230 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey), Arslantepe (Early Bronze Age, Turkey) and Turkey (Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Armenian Aintab, Armenian Urfa and Armenian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups G2a and J2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is X2i.
- Period
- Chalcolithic
- Date
- c. 3430–3230 BCE
- Country
- Turkey
- Origin
- Eastern Anatolia, Turkey
- Sampled near
- Arslantepe 38.38, 38.36
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- SkourtaniotiKrauseCell2020
- Catalogue
Arslantepe_LC
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 | Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Arslantepe_LateC | 2.20 |
| 2 | Arslantepe (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_Arslantepe_EBA | 2.65 |
| 3 | Turkey (Early Bronze Age)Turkey_EBA | 2.77 |
| 4 | Masis Blur (Neolithic, Armenia)Armenia_MasisBlur_N | 2.85 |
| 5 | Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod | 2.96 |
| 6 | Persian (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Persian | 2.97 |
| 7 | II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_EBA_II | 2.99 |
| 8 | Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)Ovaoren_EBA | 3.04 |
| 9 | Ikiztepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Ikiztepe_LateC | 3.19 |
| 10 | Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic)Camlibel_Tarlasi_LC | 3.31 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armenian AintabArmenian_Aintab | 3.53 |
| 2 | Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa | 3.61 |
| 3 | ArmenianArmenian | 3.76 |
| 4 | Greek Central AnatoliaGreek_Central_Anatolia | 3.80 |
| 5 | Turkish TrabzonTurkish_Trabzon | 4.03 |
| 6 | CypriotCypriot | 4.09 |
| 7 | Armenian GurinArmenian_Gurin | 4.13 |
| 8 | Greek TrabzonGreek_Trabzon | 4.32 |
| 9 | Armenian AraratArmenian_Ararat | 4.33 |
| 10 | Armenian GesariaArmenian_Gesaria | 4.39 |
Haplogroups
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.