Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Ikiztepe (Late Chalcolithic)

Ikiztepe_LC

Ikiztepe (Late Chalcolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ikiztepe_LC), with 5 samples from Black Sea, Turkey, dated to c. 3550–3210 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Persian (Iron Age, Turkey), Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey) and Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Greek Central Anatolia, Greek Trabzon and Turkish Trabzon.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c, J2a and J2b.

Date
c. 3550–3210 BCE
Country
Turkey
Origin
Black Sea, Turkey
Sampled near
İkiztepe 41.61, 35.87
Samples
5
Catalogue
Ikiztepe_LC

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
1Persian (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Persian2.94
2Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_CamlibelTarlasi_LateC3.44
3Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod3.52
4Ikiztepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Ikiztepe_LateC3.61
5Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA3.73
6Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic)C_Gordion_Anc3.80
7Turkey (Chalcolithic)Turkey_C3.90
8Turkey (Early Bronze Age)Turkey_EBA4.02
9II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_EBA_II4.08
10Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic)Camlibel_Tarlasi_LC4.09
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Greek Central AnatoliaGreek_Central_Anatolia4.08
2Greek TrabzonGreek_Trabzon4.74
3Turkish TrabzonTurkish_Trabzon4.75
4Armenian AintabArmenian_Aintab4.98
5CypriotCypriot5.02
6Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes5.02
7Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa5.06
8ArmenianArmenian5.14
9Armenian GesariaArmenian_Gesaria5.24
10Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese5.37

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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
IKI002F3341-3094 calBCEİkiztepeJ1c16
IKI009F3370-3105 calBCEİkiztepeJ2a1
IKI017F3494-3110 calBCEİkiztepe
IKI036F3621-3372 calBCEİkiztepeJ2b1c
IKI037M3634-3381 calBCEİkiztepeG2a2b1b1a1 G-Z6029