Ancient population · Iron Age
Bragdzor (Early Iron Age)
Bragdzor_EIA
Bragdzor (Early Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Bragdzor_EIA), with 1 sample from Lori, Armenia, dated to c. 850 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Maykop Late (Bronze Age), Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia) and Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia); the nearest living populations are Georgian Ratcha, Georgian Imer and Georgian Lechkhumi.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is K1a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 850 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Origin
- Lori, Armenia
- Sampled near
- Brardzryal 40.92, 44.50
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Bragdzor_EIA
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 | Maykop Late (Bronze Age)Maykop_Late | 3.75 |
| 2 | Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Berkaber | 4.27 |
| 3 | Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_Maikop_Novosvobodnaya | 4.28 |
| 4 | Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_LateMaikop | 4.44 |
| 5 | Kura-Araxes Berkaber (Bronze Age)Kura-Araxes_Berkaber | 4.59 |
| 6 | Kura-Araxes KapsKura-Araxes_Kaps | 4.67 |
| 7 | Kura Araxes Kaps (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kaps | 4.69 |
| 8 | Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan | 4.76 |
| 9 | Kura Araxes Karnut (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Karnut | 5.10 |
| 10 | Caucasus (Eneolithic, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_Eneolithic | 5.25 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgian RatchaGeorgian_Ratcha | 3.84 |
| 2 | Georgian ImerGeorgian_Imer | 4.02 |
| 3 | Georgian LechkhumiGeorgian_Lechkhumi | 4.02 |
| 4 | Georgian WestGeorgian_West | 4.07 |
| 5 | Georgian AjarGeorgian_Ajar | 4.08 |
| 6 | Georgian MegrGeorgian_Megr | 4.16 |
| 7 | Georgian GuriaGeorgian_Guria | 4.17 |
| 8 | Georgian KakhGeorgian_Kakh | 4.57 |
| 9 | Georgian JavakhetiGeorgian_Javakheti | 4.62 |
| 10 | Abkhasian GudautaAbkhasian_Gudauta | 4.66 |
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I16546 | M | 950-750 BCE | Brardzryal | J2a1a1a2b2a1a1 J-Z504 | K1a4c |