Ancient population · Antiquity

Crimea Pantikapaion (Antiquity)

Crimea_Pantikapaion

Crimea Pantikapaion (Antiquity) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Crimea_Pantikapaion), with 1 sample, dated to c. 350 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ostrogothic Crimea ACD (Antiquity), Areni (Chalcolithic, Armenia) and Roopkund B (India); the nearest living populations are Turkish, Greek Crete Heraklion and Turkish Istanbul.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is HV9a.

Period
Antiquity
Date
c. 350 CE
Sampled near
Mithridates Hill 45.35, 36.47
Samples
1
Catalogue
Crimea_Pantikapaion.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
1Ostrogothic Crimea ACD (Antiquity)Ostrogothic_Crimea_ACD1.77
2Areni (Chalcolithic, Armenia)Armenia_C_Areni4.83
3Roopkund B (India)India_RoopkundB5.37
4Early Byzantine 1 (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_EarlyByzantine_15.51
5North Langobards 3 (Early Medieval, Italy)Italy_North_EarlyMedieval_Langobards_35.55
6Ottoman (Turkey) · Turkey_OttomanTurkey_Ottoman5.65
7Casal Bertone Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_CasalBertone_RomanImperial5.69
8Greek CappadociaGreek_Cappadocia5.71
9Turkish EastTurkish_East5.83
10Italy (Medieval)Italy_Medieval5.84
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1TurkishTurkish4.60
2Greek Crete HeraklionGreek_Crete_Heraklion4.87
3Turkish IstanbulTurkish_Istanbul5.20
4Greek CreteGreek_Crete5.24
5Ashkenazi RussiaAshkenazi_Russia5.25
6Ashkenazi RomaniaAshkenazi_Romania5.28
7Greek Crete ChaniaGreek_Crete_Chania5.29
8Ashkenazi LithuaniaAshkenazi_Lithuania5.33
9Ashkenazi BelarussiaAshkenazi_Belarussia5.34
10Ashkenazi LatviaAshkenazi_Latvia5.35

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 1

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
Ker1_noUDG.SGM255-413 calCEMithridates HillJ2a1a1a2b2a1b1 J-Y39561HV9a