Ancient population · Iron Age

Xinjiang Wuzan (Iron Age, China)

China_Xinjiang_Wuzan_IA

Xinjiang Wuzan (Iron Age, China) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (China_Xinjiang_Wuzan_IA), with 2 samples from China, dated to c. 570–550 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Xinjiang Abusanteer (Iron Age, China), Xinjiang Caishichang (Iron Age, China) and Xinjiang Simutasi (Iron Age, China); the nearest living populations are Pamiri Sarikoli, Tajik Tajikistan Hisor and Tajik.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include C4a and W3b.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 570–550 BCE
Country
China
Sampled near
Wuzan 43.22, 81.84
Samples
2
Published in
KumarFuScience2022
Catalogue
China_Xinjiang_Wuzan_IA
China_Xinjiang_Wuzan_IA_oEastAsia 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
1Xinjiang Abusanteer (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Abusanteer_IA2.22
2Xinjiang Caishichang (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA2.68
3Xinjiang Simutasi (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Simutasi_IA2.92
4Xinjiang Axile (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Axile_IA2.96
5Xinjiang Wutulan Suodunbulake possible (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Wutulan_IA_Suodunbulake_possible3.07
6Molaly (Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_LBA_Molaly3.21
7Xinjiang Kuokesuxi (Early Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Kuokesuxi_EIA3.25
8Xinjiang Hetian Historical (Antiquity, China)China_Xinjiang_Hetian_Historical3.42
9Tian Shan Saka (Iron Age, Kyrgyzstan)Kyrgyzstan_TianShan_Saka3.47
10Xinjiang Dongmaili (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Dongmaili_IA3.49
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Pamiri SarikoliPamiri_Sarikoli6.76
2Tajik Tajikistan HisorTajik_Tajikistan_Hisor6.83
3TajikTajik7.39
4Tajik Tajikistan AyniTajik_Tajikistan_Ayni7.49
5Pamiri BadakhshanPamiri_Badakhshan7.53
6Tajik ShugnanTajik_Shugnan7.58
7Pamiri WakhiPamiri_Wakhi7.68
8Pamiri ShugnanPamiri_Shugnan7.71
9Tajik RushanTajik_Rushan7.77
10BesermyanBesermyan7.86

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

2 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 entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
C847.SGChina_Xinjiang_Wuzan_IAM743-399 calBCEWuzanR1a1a1 R-FT361710W3b
C851China_Xinjiang_Wuzan_IAM750-350 BCEWuzanR1a1a1 R-M417C4a1a
C799.SG outlierChina_Xinjiang_Wuzan_IA_oEastAsiaF540-386 calBCEWuzanU5a2
C846 outlierChina_Xinjiang_Wuzan_IAF750-350 BCEWuzanA8a1