Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Amur River (Mesolithic, China)

Name: Amur River (Mesolithic, China) (China_AmurRiver_Mesolithic)
Creator: Genoplot

China_AmurRiver_Mesolithic

Amur River (Mesolithic, China) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (China_AmurRiver_Mesolithic), with 3 samples from China, dated to c. 9310–8610 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Devils Cave (Neolithic, Russia), Devils Gate Cave (Neolithic) and Boisman (Middle Neolithic, Russia); the nearest living populations are Nivkh, Oroqen and Hezhen.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups C2a (2) and C; its mtDNA haplogroups include M8 (2) and D4o.

Period: Hunter-Gatherer
Date: c. 9310–8610 BCE
Country: China
Sampled near: Zhaodong on the northern bank of the Songhua River 45.96, 125.78
Samples: 3
Published in: MaoFuCell2021
Catalogue: China_AmurRiver_Mesolithic

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	Devils Cave (Neolithic, Russia)`Russia_DevilsCave_N`	1.68
2	Devils Gate Cave (Neolithic)`Devils_Gate_Cave_N`	2.01
3	Boisman (Middle Neolithic, Russia)`Russia_Boisman_MN`	2.22
4	Amur River (Neolithic, China)`China_AmurRiver_N`	2.46
5	Amur River (Neolithic, c. 10600 BP)`Amur_River_10600BP`	2.55
6	Amur River (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 11000 BP)`Amur_River_11000BP`	2.66
7	Amur River (Neolithic, c. 6870 BP)`Amur_River_6870BP`	2.89
8	Amur River (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 14100 BP)`Amur_River_14100BP`	3.07
9	Amur River (Neolithic, c. 10500 BP)`Amur_River_10500BP`	3.10
10	Boisman (Middle Neolithic)`Boisman_MN`	3.33

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Nivkh`Nivkh`	4.24
2	Oroqen`Oroqen`	5.08
3	Hezhen`Hezhen`	5.18
4	Ulchi`Ulchi`	5.19
5	Nanai`Nanai`	5.31
6	Daur`Daur`	6.34
7	Negidal`Negidal`	7.30
8	Xibo`Xibo`	8.42
9	Mongol IMAR`Mongol_IMAR`	9.04
10	Khamnegan`Khamnegan`	9.72

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

C C-M217
C2a1 C-ACT1932
C2a1a C-F1699

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

M8 2
D4o

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`NE3_noUDG`	M	8782-8560 calBCE	Zhaodong on the northern bank of the Songhua River	C C-M217	M8
`NE4_noUDG`	M	8740-8475 calBCE	Zhaodong on the northern bank of the Songhua River	C2a1 C-ACT1932	M8
`NE8_noUDG`	M	9442-9248 calBCE	Zhaodong on the northern bank of the Songhua River	C2a1a C-F1699	D4o