Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Hajji Firuz (Chalcolithic)

Hajji_Firuz_C

Hajji Firuz (Chalcolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Hajji_Firuz_C), with 2 samples from West Azerbaijan, Iran, dated to about 5975 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Hajji Firuz (Neolithic, Iran), Hasanlu (Iron Age, Iran) and Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Assyrian, Armenian Ararat and Armenian Hemsheni.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include HV and U1a.

Date
about 5975 BCE
Country
Iran
Origin
West Azerbaijan, Iran
Sampled near
Hajji Firuz 36.99, 45.47
Samples
2
Catalogue
Hajji_Firuz_C

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
1Hajji Firuz (Neolithic, Iran)Iran_HajjiFiruz_N1.47
2Hasanlu (Iron Age, Iran)Iran_Hasanlu_IA3.50
3Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_LateHellenistic3.56
4Hasanlu (Iron Age)Hasanlu_IA3.73
5Iraq (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A)Iraq_PPNA3.76
6Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Antiquity3.80
7Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IATurkey_IA3.86
8Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible3.91
9Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_PostMedieval4.17
10Hasanlu B (Late Bronze Age)Hasanlu_LBA_B4.30
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1AssyrianAssyrian3.49
2Armenian AraratArmenian_Ararat3.86
3Armenian HemsheniArmenian_Hemsheni4.02
4Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa4.02
5Turkish ErzurumTurkish_Erzurum4.03
6Mountain Jew AzerbaijanMountain_Jew_Azerbaijan4.05
7Mountain Jew DagestanMountain_Jew_Dagestan4.07
8Armenian ErzurumArmenian_Erzurum4.07
9Georgian JewGeorgian_Jew4.11
10ArmenianArmenian4.13

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I4349M5891-5720 calBCEHajji FiruzJ2b2b1 J-BY22522U1a1d
I4351F6065-5889 calBCEHajji FiruzHV