Ancient population · Bronze Age

WLR (Bronze Age, China)

China_WLR_BA

WLR (Bronze Age, China) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (China_WLR_BA), with 2 samples from China, dated to c. 860–700 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Western Liao River (Bronze Age), NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China) and Bianbian (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Mongola, Xibo and Korean Antu.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include D4j and D4m.

Date
c. 860–700 BCE
Country
China
Sampled near
Longtou Mountain 42.50, 125.41
Samples
2
Published in
NingCuiNatComm2020
Catalogue
China_WLR_BA
China_WLR_BA_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
1Western Liao River (Bronze Age)Western_Liao_River_BA1.01
2NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China)China_NEastAsia_Coastal_EN2.44
3Bianbian (Neolithic)Bianbian_N3.02
4Xiongnu East Asian (Iron Age)Xiongnu_East_Asian3.06
5Xiaojingshan (Neolithic)Xiaojingshan_N3.20
6Xiaogao (Neolithic)Xiaogao_N3.47
7Heshui Mohe 1 (Early Medieval, Russia)Russia_EarlyMedieval_Heshui_Mohe_13.54
8Upper YR (Iron Age, China)China_Upper_YR_IA4.31
9Upper Yellow River (Iron Age)Upper_Yellow_River_IA4.37
10Shimao (Late Neolithic)Shimao_LN4.39
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1MongolaMongola3.08
2XiboXibo3.31
3Korean AntuKorean_Antu3.46
4KoreanKorean3.71
5Manchu JinzhouManchu_Jinzhou4.39
6Han ShanxiHan_Shanxi4.45
7ManchuManchu4.46
8YugurYugur4.70
9Manchu LiaoningManchu_Liaoning4.78
10Han HenanHan_Henan4.87

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

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
91KLH11_noUDGChina_WLR_BAF1050-350 BCELongtou MountainD4m1
91KLH18_noUDGChina_WLR_BAM916-809 calBCELongtou MountainD4j14
91KLM2_noUDG outlierChina_WLR_BA_oM1050-350 BCELongtou MountainB4c1a2