Ancient population · Neolithic
Caucasus lowlands (Late Neolithic, Azerbaijan)
Azerbaijan_Caucasus_lowlands_LN
Caucasus lowlands (Late Neolithic, Azerbaijan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Azerbaijan_Caucasus_lowlands_LN), with 2 samples from Azerbaijan, dated to c. 5690–5430 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IA, Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia) and Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Armenian Urfa, Armenian Aintab and Turkish Trabzon.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include H13a and U7.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 5690–5430 BCE
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Sampled near
- Mentesh Tepe 40.26, 47.15
- Sites
- Mentesh Tepe
Polutepe - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- SkourtaniotiKrauseCell2020
- Catalogue
Azerbaijan_Caucasus_lowlands_LN
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 | Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IATurkey_IA | 2.98 |
| 2 | Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible | 3.20 |
| 3 | Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_PostMedieval | 3.35 |
| 4 | Arslantepe (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_Arslantepe_EBA | 3.37 |
| 5 | Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic)Arslantepe_LC | 3.37 |
| 6 | Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_SoutheastByzantine | 3.48 |
| 7 | Turkey (Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)Turkey_LateC_EBA | 3.55 |
| 8 | Persian (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Persian | 3.91 |
| 9 | Greek CappadociaGreek_Cappadocia | 3.99 |
| 10 | Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Arslantepe_LateC | 4.01 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa | 2.86 |
| 2 | Armenian AintabArmenian_Aintab | 2.87 |
| 3 | Turkish TrabzonTurkish_Trabzon | 2.91 |
| 4 | ArmenianArmenian | 2.92 |
| 5 | Armenian AraratArmenian_Ararat | 3.06 |
| 6 | Greek TrabzonGreek_Trabzon | 3.11 |
| 7 | Armenian GesariaArmenian_Gesaria | 3.31 |
| 8 | Armenian HemsheniArmenian_Hemsheni | 3.48 |
| 9 | Armenian ErzurumArmenian_Erzurum | 3.50 |
| 10 | Armenian GurinArmenian_Gurin | 3.88 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.