Ancient population · Bronze Age
Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age)
DinkhaTepe_BIA_A
Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (DinkhaTepe_BIA_A), with 4 samples from West Azerbaijan, Iran, dated to c. 1890–1500 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Dinkha Tepe 1 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran), Roman Byzantine 3 (Medieval, Turkey) and Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Kurdish Jew, Iraqi Jew and Nash Didan Jew Urmia.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1b, U2d, U2e and U7a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1890–1500 BCE
- Country
- Iran
- Origin
- West Azerbaijan, Iran
- Sampled near
- Dinkha Tepe 37.01, 45.17
- Samples
- 4
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
DinkhaTepe_BIA_A
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinkha Tepe 1 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran)Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1 | 2.10 |
| 2 | Roman Byzantine 3 (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_RomanByzantine_3 | 2.19 |
| 3 | Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA | 2.52 |
| 4 | Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IATurkey_IA | 2.53 |
| 5 | Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA | 2.54 |
| 6 | SE Sirnak (Bronze Age)SE_Sirnak_BA | 2.61 |
| 7 | Lebanese Christian MaroniteLebanese_Christian_Maronite | 2.67 |
| 8 | Lebanese Christian Greek OrthodoxLebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox | 2.73 |
| 9 | Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_SoutheastByzantine | 2.74 |
| 10 | Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Alalakh_MLBA | 2.78 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kurdish JewKurdish_Jew | 1.43 |
| 2 | Iraqi JewIraqi_Jew | 1.70 |
| 3 | Nash Didan Jew UrmiaNash_Didan_Jew_Urmia | 2.25 |
| 4 | Chaldean IraqChaldean_Iraq | 2.35 |
| 5 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 2.57 |
| 6 | Assyrian MardinAssyrian_Mardin | 2.57 |
| 7 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 2.66 |
| 8 | DruzeDruze | 2.76 |
| 9 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 2.76 |
| 10 | Mountain Jew DagestanMountain_Jew_Dagestan | 2.79 |
Haplogroups
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.