Ancient population · Neolithic

Upper YR (Late Neolithic, China)

China_Upper_YR_LN

Upper YR (Late Neolithic, China) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (China_Upper_YR_LN), with 3 samples from China, dated to c. 2530–1950 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Upper Yellow River (Late Neolithic), Shimao (Late Neolithic, China) and Shimao (Late Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Qiang Daofu, Pumi and Tibetan Chamdo.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include F1g, G1c and G3a.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 2530–1950 BCE
Country
China
Sampled near
Lajia site 36.65, 102.04
Sites
Lajia site (2)
Jinchankou site
Samples
3
Published in
NingCuiNatComm2020
Catalogue
China_Upper_YR_LN
China_Upper_YR_LN_o outliers

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
1Upper Yellow River (Late Neolithic)Upper_Yellow_River_LN0.98
2Shimao (Late Neolithic, China)China_Shimao_LN2.27
3Shimao (Late Neolithic)Shimao_LN2.39
4Yellow River (Middle Neolithic)Yellow_River_MN3.33
5YR (Middle Neolithic, China)China_YR_MN3.46
6Upper YR (Iron Age, China)China_Upper_YR_IA4.13
7Upper Yellow River (Iron Age)Upper_Yellow_River_IA4.24
8NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China)China_NEastAsia_Coastal_EN4.47
9Mustang Lubrak (Early Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Lubrak_EIA4.53
10Miaozigou (Middle Neolithic)Miaozigou_MN4.56
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Qiang DaofuQiang_Daofu3.02
2PumiPumi3.29
3Tibetan ChamdoTibetan_Chamdo3.38
4Qiang DanbaQiang_Danba3.45
5Tibetan YajiangTibetan_Yajiang3.52
6Tibetan YunnanTibetan_Yunnan3.70
7NagaNaga3.79
8Tibetan NagquTibetan_Nagqu3.93
9Tibetan LhasaTibetan_Lhasa4.58
10Han ShanxiHan_Shanxi4.87

Haplogroups

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSitemtDNA
JCKM1-1_noUDGChina_Upper_YR_LNM2461-2208 calBCEJinchankou siteG3a2
LJM2_noUDGChina_Upper_YR_LNF2050-1850 BCELajia siteF1g
LJM3_noUDGChina_Upper_YR_LNM2866-2237 calBCELajia siteG1c1
LJM14_noUDG outlierChina_Upper_YR_LN_oM2050-1850 BCELajia siteA18