Ancient population · Iron Age

Caspian steppe Sarmatian (Iron Age)

Name: Caspian steppe Sarmatian (Iron Age) (Caspian_steppe_Sarmatian)
Creator: Genoplot

Caspian_steppe_Sarmatian

Caspian steppe Sarmatian (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Caspian_steppe_Sarmatian), with 6 samples from Rostov Oblast, Russia, dated to c. 350 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia), Late Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia) and Urals Sarmatian (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Tajik Rushan, Pamiri Rushan and Pamiri Shugnan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1a (3) and Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include A (2), H28, I1 and U2e.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 350 BCE
Country: Russia
Origin: Rostov Oblast, Russia
Sampled near: Chebotarev-5 47.29, 39.54
Sites: Chebotarev-5 (3)
Nesvetay-2 (2)
Nesvetay-4
Samples: 6
Published in: DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
Catalogue: Caspian_steppe_Sarmatian

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	Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_Sarmatian`	0.38
2	Late Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_LateSarmatian`	1.25
3	Urals Sarmatian (Iron Age)`Urals_Sarmatian`	1.50
4	Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Sarmatian_IA`Kazakhstan_Sarmatian_IA`	1.61
5	Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Sarmatian`Kazakhstan_Sarmatian`	2.00
6	Early Sarmatian Southern Urals (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_EarlySarmatian_SouthernUrals`	2.38
7	Ural Early Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_Ural_EarlySarmatian`	2.43
8	Himera 480BCE 4 (Iron Age, Sicily)`Sicily_Himera_480BCE_4`	2.46
9	Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_Sarmatian`KAZ_Sarmatian`	2.49
10	Middle Sarmatian Southern Urals (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_MiddleSarmatian_SouthernUrals`	2.52

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Tajik Rushan`Tajik_Rushan`	7.12
2	Pamiri Rushan`Pamiri_Rushan`	7.17
3	Pamiri Shugnan`Pamiri_Shugnan`	7.75
4	Tajik Shugnan`Tajik_Shugnan`	7.76
5	Tatar Kazan`Tatar_Kazan`	7.90
6	Tatar Mishar`Tatar_Mishar`	8.13
7	Komi`Komi`	8.37
8	Tajik Yaghnobi`Tajik_Yaghnobi`	8.48
9	Komi A`Komi_A`	8.61
10	Tajik Yagnobi`Tajik_Yagnobi`	8.67

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

Q1b1a3a Q-BZ181
R1a1a1 R-M417
R1a1a1b2a2a3 R-YP5844
R1a1a1b2a2b2b1 R-Y2631

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 6

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
`DA134`	M	800 BCE - 100 CE	Chebotarev-5	R1a1a1b2a2b2b1 R-Y2631	I1
`DA136`	M	800 BCE - 100 CE	Nesvetay-2	R1a1a1 R-M417	A
`DA139`	F	800 BCE - 100 CE	Chebotarev-5		U2e1h
`DA141`	M	800 BCE - 100 CE	Nesvetay-2	Q1b1a3a Q-BZ181	A
`DA143`	F	800 BCE - 100 CE	Nesvetay-4		U4b1a4
`DA144`	M	800 BCE - 100 CE	Chebotarev-5	R1a1a1b2a2a3 R-YP5844	H28