Ancient population · Neolithic

AR (Early Neolithic, China)

China_AR_EN

AR (Early Neolithic, China) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (China_AR_EN), with 2 samples from China, dated to c. 5440–5410 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Amur River (Early Neolithic), Argun River M (Neolithic, Russia) and Argun River (Mesolithic); the nearest living populations are Nanai, Negidal and Ulchi.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include C4a and C5.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 5440–5410 BCE
Country
China
Sampled near
Wuqi farm site 46.86, 119.66
Sites
Wuqi farm site
Zhalainuoer Mining Site
Samples
2
Published in
NingCuiNatComm2020
Catalogue
China_AR_EN

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
#PopulationDistance
1Amur River (Early Neolithic)Amur_River_EN1.29
2Argun River M (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_ArgunRiver_M3.24
3Argun River (Mesolithic)Argun_River_Meso3.26
4Lena River (Early Neolithic)Lena_River_EN3.38
5Lena River (Early Neolithic, Russia)Russia_LenaRiver_EN3.38
6Kadalinka River (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_KadalinkaRiver_N3.67
7Kuenga River 2 (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_KuengaRiver_N_23.70
8Khentii Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khentii_Xiongnu3.85
9Trans-Baikal (Neolithic)Trans-Baikal_N4.15
10Amur River (Chalcolithic, c. 6330 BP)Amur_River_6330BP4.28
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NanaiNanai4.55
2NegidalNegidal5.26
3UlchiUlchi5.79
4OroqenOroqen7.11
5NivkhNivkh7.55
6KhamneganKhamnegan9.31
7HezhenHezhen10.19
8DaurDaur10.98
9BuryatBuryat11.66
10MongolMongol12.53

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
WQM4_noUDGF5478-5331 calBCEWuqi farm siteC4a1a
ZLNR-2_noUDGF5527-5376 calBCEZhalainuoer Mining SiteC5