Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Belt Cave low res (Mesolithic)

Name: Belt Cave low res (Mesolithic) (Belt_Cave_Meso_low_res)
Creator: Genoplot

Belt_Cave_Meso_low_res

Belt Cave low res (Mesolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Belt_Cave_Meso_low_res), with 1 sample from Mazandaran, Iran, dated to about 10000 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Hotu IIIb (Mesolithic), Sarazm (Chalcolithic, Tajikistan) and Shahr ISokhta BA1 (Bronze Age, Iran); the nearest living populations are Balochi, Balochi Pakistan and Makrani.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is H.

Period: Hunter-Gatherer
Date: about 10000 BCE
Country: Iran
Origin: Mazandaran, Iran
Sampled near: Belt Cave 35.59, 53.50
Samples: 1
Published in: NarasimhanReichScience2019
Catalogue: Belt_Cave_Meso_low_res

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	Hotu IIIb (Mesolithic)`HotuIIIb_Meso`	8.98
2	Sarazm (Chalcolithic, Tajikistan)`Tajikistan_C_Sarazm`	9.92
3	Shahr ISokhta BA1 (Bronze Age, Iran)`Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA1`	9.96
4	Geoksyur (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)`Turkmenistan_C_Geoksyur`	10.05
5	Geoksyur (Neolithic)`Geoksyur_N`	10.07
6	Namazga Tepe En (Chalcolithic)`Namazga_Tepe_En`	10.12
7	Namazga (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)`Turkmenistan_C_Namazga`	10.23
8	Bustan (Eneolithic, Uzbekistan)`Uzbekistan_Bustan_Eneolithic`	10.29
9	Tepe Anau (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)`Turkmenistan_C_TepeAnau`	10.36
10	Parkhai (Early Bronze Age, Turkmenistan)`Turkmenistan_EBA_Parkhai`	10.49

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Balochi`Balochi`	11.53
2	Balochi Pakistan`Balochi_Pakistan`	11.53
3	Makrani`Makrani`	11.59
4	Brahui`Brahui`	11.69
5	Balochi Iran`Balochi_Iran`	11.88
6	Iranian Bandari`Iranian_Bandari`	13.33
7	Kalash`Kalash`	13.38
8	Pashtun Afghanistan`Pashtun_Afghanistan`	13.71
9	Pashtun Afghanistan Paktia`Pashtun_Afghanistan_Paktia`	13.81
10	Pashtun Pakistan Khattak Nowshera`Pashtun_Pakistan_Khattak_Nowshera`	13.91

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

Sample	Date	Site	mtDNA
`I2312_all_d`	12000-8000 BCE	Belt Cave	H