Ancient population · Bronze Age

Xinjiang Nileke Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China)

China_Xinjiang_Nileke_Afanasievo_BA

Xinjiang Nileke Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (China_Xinjiang_Nileke_Afanasievo_BA), with 2 samples from China, dated to c. 2900–2820 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Xinjiang Chaganguole Chemurcheck (Bronze Age, China), Chemurchek 2 (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia) and Xinjiang G 218 Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China); the nearest living populations are Udmurt, Besermyan and Saami.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups Q2a and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H15b and U5.

Date
c. 2900–2820 BCE
Country
China
Sampled near
G218 43.85, 83.02
Sites
G218
Nileke
Samples
2
Published in
ZhangCuiNature2021
Catalogue
China_Xinjiang_Nileke_Afanasievo_BA.SG variant

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
1Xinjiang Chaganguole Chemurcheck (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Chaganguole_BA_Chemurcheck2.82
2Chemurchek 2 (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_EBA_Chemurchek_23.11
3Xinjiang G 218 Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_G218_BA_Afanasievo3.88
4Xinjiang Songshugou (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_BA4.13
5Xinjiang Tuoganbai (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Tuoganbai_BA4.62
6Xinjiang Ayituohan Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China) · China_Xinjiang_Ayituohan_BA_AfanasievoChina_Xinjiang_Ayituohan_BA_Afanasievo5.38
7Xinjiang Ayituohan Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China) · China_Xinjiang_Ayituohan_Afanasievo_BAChina_Xinjiang_Ayituohan_Afanasievo_BA5.38
8Mereke (Middle Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Mereke_MBA5.50
9Xinjiang Bolati Chemurcheck (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Bolati_BA_Chemurcheck5.85
10Dali (Early Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Dali_EBA6.00
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1UdmurtUdmurt11.63
2BesermyanBesermyan12.33
3SaamiSaami13.72
4KomiKomi14.51
5Komi AKomi_A14.55
6Tatar KazanTatar_Kazan14.80
7Pamiri SarikoliPamiri_Sarikoli14.95
8Saami KolaSaami_Kola15.09
9ChuvashChuvash15.30
10Pamiri WakhiPamiri_Wakhi15.33

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
G218M5-2.SGM2910-2697 calBCEG218R1b1a1b R-M269H15b1
G218M5-3N.SGM3008-2783 calBCENilekeQ2a Q-F2235U5a'b