Ancient population · Chalcolithic
Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic)
C_Gordion_Anc
Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (C_Gordion_Anc), with 3 samples from West Anatolia, Turkey, dated to c. 650–180 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Isola Sacra Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy), Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey) and Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Cypriot, Greek Dodecanese Rhodes and Greek Central Anatolia.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H14a, H20 and U3b.
- Period
- Chalcolithic
- Date
- c. 650–180 BCE
- Country
- Turkey
- Origin
- West Anatolia, Turkey
- Sampled near
- Gordion 39.65, 32.00
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
C_Gordion_Anc
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 | Isola Sacra Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_IsolaSacra_RomanImperial | 1.79 |
| 2 | Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Hellenistic | 2.14 |
| 3 | Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Roman_5 | 2.20 |
| 4 | Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA | 2.21 |
| 5 | Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_Byzantine | 2.24 |
| 6 | Early Byzantine 2 (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_EarlyByzantine_2 | 2.26 |
| 7 | Aegean Mugla Stratonikeia Byzantine (Medieval)Aegean_Mugla_Stratonikeia_Byz | 2.36 |
| 8 | II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_EBA_II | 2.39 |
| 9 | West Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_WestByzantine | 2.40 |
| 10 | Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)Ovaoren_EBA | 2.47 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CypriotCypriot | 2.17 |
| 2 | Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes | 2.61 |
| 3 | Greek Central AnatoliaGreek_Central_Anatolia | 2.91 |
| 4 | Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese | 2.96 |
| 5 | Greek KosGreek_Kos | 2.96 |
| 6 | Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew | 3.74 |
| 7 | Greek Cyclades AmorgosGreek_Cyclades_Amorgos | 3.85 |
| 8 | DruzeDruze | 4.13 |
| 9 | Syrian JewSyrian_Jew | 4.13 |
| 10 | Greek CreteGreek_Crete | 4.24 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
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.