Ancient population · Bronze Age

Xinjiang Xiaohe (Bronze Age, China)

Name: Xinjiang Xiaohe (Bronze Age, China) (China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA)
Creator: Genoplot

China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA

Xinjiang Xiaohe (Bronze Age, China) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA), with 10 samples from China, dated to c. 1950–1690 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Xinjiang Beifang Xiaohe (Bronze Age, China), Tarim EMBA2 (Bronze Age) and Botai (Eneolithic, Kazakhstan); the nearest living populations are Tlingit, Udmurt and Mansi.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1 and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include C4 (9) and R1b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1950–1690 BCE
Country: China
Sampled near: Xiaohe 40.34, 88.67
Samples: 10
Published in: ZhangCuiNature2021
Catalogue: China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA
China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_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
#	Population	Distance
1	Xinjiang Beifang Xiaohe (Bronze Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Beifang_Xiaohe_BA`	3.67
2	Tarim EMBA2 (Bronze Age)`Tarim_EMBA2`	5.28
3	Botai (Eneolithic, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Botai_Eneolithic`	5.88
4	Tyumen (Hunter-Gatherer, Russia)`Russia_Tyumen_HG`	6.16
5	West (Neolithic, Siberia)`West_Siberia_N`	6.57
6	Botai (Chalcolithic, Kazakhstan)`KAZ_Botai`	6.84
7	Sosnoviy (Hunter-Gatherer, Russia)`Russia_Sosnoviy_HG`	7.19
8	Dali (Early Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Dali_EBA`	9.35
9	Afontova Gora3 (Hunter-Gatherer, Russia) · RUS_AfontovaGora3`RUS_AfontovaGora3`	9.93
10	Afontova Gora3 (Hunter-Gatherer, Russia) · Russia_AfontovaGora3`Russia_AfontovaGora3`	10.07

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Tlingit`Tlingit`	21.86
2	Udmurt`Udmurt`	23.16
3	Mansi`Mansi`	23.40
4	Tatar Siberian Zabolotniye`Tatar_Siberian_Zabolotniye`	23.73
5	Khanty`Khanty`	23.78
6	Komi B`Komi_B`	23.92
7	Saami`Saami`	24.17
8	Besermyan`Besermyan`	24.46
9	Bashkir`Bashkir`	24.73
10	Greenlander West`Greenlander_West`	25.13

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1 R1
R1b R1b

mtDNA

10 individuals with a call

C4 9
R1b1

Individuals 10

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.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`L5209`	`China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA`	M	2050-1850 BCE	Xiaohe	R1 R1	C4
`L5213`	`China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA`	M	2050-1850 BCE	Xiaohe	R1b R1b	R1b1
`L6101`	`China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA`	F	1767-1623 calBCE	Xiaohe		C4
`L6103`	`China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA`	F	1785-1664 calBCE	Xiaohe		C4
`L6105`	`China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA`	F	2050-1850 BCE	Xiaohe		C4
`L6106`	`China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA`	F	2050-1850 BCE	Xiaohe		C4
`XHM100.SG`	`China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA.SG`	F	1882-1742 calBCE	Xiaohe		C4
`XHM110.SG`	`China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA.SG`	F	2050-1850 BCE	Xiaohe		C4
`XHM135.SG`	`China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA.SG`	F	1918-1750 calBCE	Xiaohe		C4
`XHM75.SG`	`China_Xinjiang_Xiaohe_BA.SG`	F	2050-1850 BCE	Xiaohe		C4