Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer
Kotias (Hunter-Gatherer, Georgia)
Georgia_Kotias
Kotias (Hunter-Gatherer, Georgia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Georgia_Kotias), with 1 sample from Georgia, dated to c. 7730 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Georgia (Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer), Caucasus (Eneolithic, Russia) and Darkveti-Meshoko En (Chalcolithic); the nearest living populations are Georgian Svaneti, Hinukh and Tsez A.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is H13c.
- Period
- Hunter-Gatherer
- Date
- c. 7730 BCE
- Country
- Georgia
- Sampled near
- Kotias Klde 42.28, 43.28
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- JonesBradleyNatComm2015
- Catalogue
Georgia_Kotias.SGvariant
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 | Georgia (Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer)GEO_CHG | 1.36 |
| 2 | Caucasus (Eneolithic, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_Eneolithic | 10.18 |
| 3 | Darkveti-Meshoko En (Chalcolithic)Darkveti-Meshoko_En | 10.48 |
| 4 | North Caucasus (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_North_Caucasus_MBA | 11.71 |
| 5 | Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_Maikop_Novosvobodnaya | 12.53 |
| 6 | Himera 480BCE 5 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_5 | 12.73 |
| 7 | Kura-Araxes VelikentKura-Araxes_Velikent | 12.94 |
| 8 | Bragdzor (Early Iron Age)Bragdzor_EIA | 13.04 |
| 9 | Maykop Late (Bronze Age)Maykop_Late | 13.17 |
| 10 | Caucasus Kura Araxes (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_KuraAraxes | 13.17 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgian SvanetiGeorgian_Svaneti | 12.61 |
| 2 | HinukhHinukh | 13.00 |
| 3 | Tsez ATsez_A | 13.13 |
| 4 | Georgian MegrGeorgian_Megr | 13.18 |
| 5 | Abkhasian GudautaAbkhasian_Gudauta | 13.32 |
| 6 | OssetianOssetian | 13.41 |
| 7 | AbkhasianAbkhasian | 13.43 |
| 8 | HunzibHunzib | 13.55 |
| 9 | Georgian RatchaGeorgian_Ratcha | 13.66 |
| 10 | Georgian WestGeorgian_West | 13.69 |
Haplogroups
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.