Ancient population · Iron Age

Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)

Name: Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt) (Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod)
Creator: Genoplot

Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod

Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod), with 2 samples from Egypt, dated to c. 660–650 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age), IBA (Bronze Age, Israel) and Hellenistic (Antiquity); the nearest living populations are Egyptian Copt, Saudi Mecca and Yemenite Dhamar.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a and J2; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1d and M1a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 660–650 BCE
Country: Egypt
Sampled near: Abusir-el Meleq 29.90, 31.20
Samples: 2
Published in: SchuenemannKrauseNatComm2017
Catalogue: Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod

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	Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian`	2.58
2	IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)`Israel_IBA`	4.57
3	Hellenistic (Antiquity)`Hellenistic`	4.75
4	Jordan (Early Bronze Age)`Jordan_EBA`	5.19
5	Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)`Lebanon_MBA`	6.10
6	Israel (Chalcolithic)`Israel_C`	6.22
7	Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)`Levant_Sidon_MBA`	6.29
8	Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Israel_MLBA`	6.46
9	Jordan (Late Bronze Age)`Jordan_LBA`	6.47
10	Levant Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age)`Levant_Ashkelon_IA2`	6.53

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Egyptian Copt`Egyptian_Copt`	3.70
2	Saudi Mecca`Saudi_Mecca`	4.61
3	Yemenite Dhamar`Yemenite_Dhamar`	4.87
4	Yemenite Amran`Yemenite_Amran`	5.02
5	Yemenite Ma'rib`Yemenite_Ma'rib`	5.22
6	Yemenite Jew`Yemenite_Jew`	5.50
7	Yemenite Al Bayda`Yemenite_Al_Bayda`	5.75
8	Bedouin A`BedouinA`	5.85
9	Saudi Jizan`Saudi_Jizan`	5.85
10	Yemenite Al Jawf`Yemenite_Al_Jawf`	5.91

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331
J2 J-M102

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

J1d
M1a1

Individuals 2

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	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`JK2134`	M	787-546 calBCE	Abusir-el Meleq	J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331	J1d
`JK2911`	M	779-544 calBCE	Abusir-el Meleq	J2 J-M102	M1a1