Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Hotu IIIb (Mesolithic)

Name: Hotu IIIb (Mesolithic) (HotuIIIb_Meso)
Creator: Genoplot

HotuIIIb_Meso

Hotu IIIb (Mesolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (HotuIIIb_Meso), with 1 sample from Mazandaran, Iran, dated to about 8850 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tepe Anau (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan), Bustan (Eneolithic, Uzbekistan) and Shahr ISokhta BA1 (Bronze Age, Iran); the nearest living populations are Makrani, Balochi and Balochi Pakistan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a.

Period: Hunter-Gatherer
Date: about 8850 BCE
Country: Iran
Origin: Mazandaran, Iran
Sampled near: Hotu Cave 35.59, 53.50
Samples: 1
Published in: NarasimhanReichScience2019
Catalogue: HotuIIIb_Meso

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	Tepe Anau (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)`Turkmenistan_C_TepeAnau`	5.49
2	Bustan (Eneolithic, Uzbekistan)`Uzbekistan_Bustan_Eneolithic`	5.49
3	Shahr ISokhta BA1 (Bronze Age, Iran)`Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA1`	5.54
4	Geoksyur (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)`Turkmenistan_C_Geoksyur`	5.80
5	Geoksyur (Neolithic)`Geoksyur_N`	6.14
6	Parkhai (Early Bronze Age, Turkmenistan)`Turkmenistan_EBA_Parkhai`	6.26
7	Parkhai (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)`Turkmenistan_C_Parkhai`	6.48
8	Tepe Abdul Hosein (Neolithic)`Tepe_Abdul_Hosein_N`	6.52
9	Tepe Abdul Hosein (Neolithic, Iran)`Iran_TepeAbdulHosein_N`	6.52
10	Ganj Dareh (Neolithic, Iran)`Iran_GanjDareh_N`	6.58

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Makrani`Makrani`	9.05
2	Balochi`Balochi`	9.14
3	Balochi Pakistan`Balochi_Pakistan`	9.14
4	Brahui`Brahui`	9.20
5	Balochi Iran`Balochi_Iran`	9.79
6	Iranian Bandari`Iranian_Bandari`	11.21
7	Kalash`Kalash`	11.85
8	Pashtun Afghanistan Paktia`Pashtun_Afghanistan_Paktia`	11.86
9	Pashtun Pakistan Bettani`Pashtun_Pakistan_Bettani`	12.03
10	Pashtun Afghanistan`Pashtun_Afghanistan`	12.06

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J2a2 J-MF10501

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA
`I1293`	M	9100-8600 BCE	Hotu Cave	J2a2 J-MF10501