Ancient population · Iron Age

Xinjiang Songshugou (Early Iron Age, China)

Name: Xinjiang Songshugou (Early Iron Age, China) (China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA)
Creator: Genoplot

China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA

Xinjiang Songshugou (Early Iron Age, China) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA), with 4 samples from China, dated to c. 620 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Xinjiang Junmachanyilian (Iron Age, China), Tian Shan Hun (Medieval, Kyrgyzstan) and Uvs EIAXiongnu Late Medival (Iron Age, Mongolia); the nearest living populations are Bashkir, Tatar Siberian and Uzbek.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include A26, D5a, U4b and U7a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 620 BCE
Country: China
Sampled near: Songshugou 47.44, 85.87
Samples: 4
Published in: KumarFuScience2022
Catalogue: China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA
China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA_oWestEurasia 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
#	Population	Distance
1	Xinjiang Junmachanyilian (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Junmachanyilian_IA`	1.78
2	Tian Shan Hun (Medieval, Kyrgyzstan)`Kyrgyzstan_TianShan_Hun`	1.87
3	Uvs EIAXiongnu Late Medival (Iron Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Uvs_EIAXiongnuLateMedival`	2.38
4	Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Saka_IA`	2.46
5	Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Tasmola_EIA`	2.77
6	Berel (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Berel_IA`	2.80
7	Xinjiang Chaganguole (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Chaganguole_IA`	2.82
8	Sagly 4 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_EIA_Sagly_4`	2.93
9	Saka Tian Shan (Iron Age) · Saka_TianShan_IA`Saka_TianShan_IA`	3.03
10	Khovd (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Khovd_MLBA`	3.16

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bashkir`Bashkir`	4.55
2	Tatar Siberian`Tatar_Siberian`	6.43
3	Uzbek`Uzbek`	7.09
4	Tatar Crimean steppe`Tatar_Crimean_steppe`	8.32
5	Nogai Dobruja`Nogai_Dobruja`	8.64
6	Nogai`Nogai`	9.21
7	Turkmen Uzbekistan`Turkmen_Uzbekistan`	9.34
8	Hazara Afghanistan`Hazara_Afghanistan`	9.37
9	Turkmen`Turkmen`	9.73
10	Tatar Lipka`Tatar_Lipka`	9.92

Haplogroups

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	mtDNA
`C3345`	`China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA`	F	800-450 BCE	Songshugou	U7a
`C3350`	`China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA`	F	800-450 BCE	Songshugou	U4b1a1a1
`C3351`	`China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA`	F	800-450 BCE	Songshugou	D5a2a1b
`C3353`	`China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA`	F	800-450 BCE	Songshugou	A26
`C3346` outlier	`China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA_oWestEurasia`	F	800-450 BCE	Songshugou	F1b1