Ancient population · Chalcolithic
Caucasus lowlands (Late Chalcolithic, Azerbaijan)
Azerbaijan_Caucasus_lowlands_LateC
Caucasus lowlands (Late Chalcolithic, Azerbaijan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Azerbaijan_Caucasus_lowlands_LateC), with 1 sample from Azerbaijan, dated to c. 3710 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to SE Sirnak (Bronze Age), Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IA and Beniamin Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Armenian Gurin, Assyrian Mardin and Nash Didan Jew Urmia.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is K1a.
- Period
- Chalcolithic
- Date
- c. 3710 BCE
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Sampled near
- Alkhantepe 39.36, 48.46
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- SkourtaniotiKrauseCell2020
- Catalogue
Azerbaijan_Caucasus_lowlands_LateC
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 | SE Sirnak (Bronze Age)SE_Sirnak_BA | 4.60 |
| 2 | Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IATurkey_IA | 4.62 |
| 3 | Beniamin Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Hellenistic | 4.85 |
| 4 | Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age)DinkhaTepe_BIA_A | 4.89 |
| 5 | Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_SoutheastByzantine | 4.91 |
| 6 | Roman Byzantine 3 (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_RomanByzantine_3 | 4.93 |
| 7 | Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_PostMedieval | 5.04 |
| 8 | Hasanlu (Middle Bronze Age, Iran)Iran_Hasanlu_MBA | 5.08 |
| 9 | Hajji Firuz (Neolithic, Iran)Iran_HajjiFiruz_N | 5.13 |
| 10 | Beniamin Artaxiad Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Artaxiad_Roman_possible | 5.22 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armenian GurinArmenian_Gurin | 4.33 |
| 2 | Assyrian MardinAssyrian_Mardin | 4.42 |
| 3 | Nash Didan Jew UrmiaNash_Didan_Jew_Urmia | 4.43 |
| 4 | Chaldean IraqChaldean_Iraq | 4.50 |
| 5 | Kurdish JewKurdish_Jew | 4.67 |
| 6 | Georgian JewGeorgian_Jew | 4.71 |
| 7 | Mandaean IraqMandaean_Iraq | 4.72 |
| 8 | AssyrianAssyrian | 4.74 |
| 9 | Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa | 4.99 |
| 10 | Iraqi JewIraqi_Jew | 5.00 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.