Ancient population · Iron Age

Dinkha Tepe 1 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran)

Name: Dinkha Tepe 1 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran) (Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1)
Creator: Genoplot

Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1

Dinkha Tepe 1 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1), with 5 samples from Iran, dated to c. 1890–1500 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age), Turkey (Middle Bronze Age) and Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Kurdish Jew, Iraqi Jew and Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a and J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1b, N1b, U2d and U2e.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 1890–1500 BCE
Country: Iran
Sampled near: Dinkha Tepe 37.01, 45.17
Samples: 5
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue: Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1
Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1_noUDG variant

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	Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age)`DinkhaTepe_BIA_A`	2.10
2	Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)`Turkey_MBA`	2.81
3	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	2.84
4	Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)`Syria_Ebla_EMBA`	2.86
5	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	2.94
6	Nemrik9 (Late Bronze Age)`Nemrik9_LBA`	2.99
7	Turkey (Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)`Turkey_LateC_EBA`	3.06
8	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Alalakh_MLBA`	3.17
9	Roman Byzantine 3 (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_RomanByzantine_3`	3.31
10	SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age)`SE_Kilis_MBA`	3.35

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Kurdish Jew`Kurdish_Jew`	2.82
2	Iraqi Jew`Iraqi_Jew`	2.89
3	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	3.28
4	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	3.45
5	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	3.62
6	Nash Didan Jew Urmia`Nash_Didan_Jew_Urmia`	3.64
7	Karaite Iraq`Karaite_Iraq`	3.68
8	Chaldean Iraq`Chaldean_Iraq`	3.73
9	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	3.84
10	Druze`Druze`	3.91

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b2a J-ZS1711
J2a1a1b1a1a1

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 6

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I3911_noUDG`	`Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1_noUDG`	M	2000-1000 BCE	Dinkha Tepe	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b2a J-ZS1711	J1b8
`I3913_noUDG`	`Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1_noUDG`	F	2012-1775 calBCE	Dinkha Tepe		U2d
`I4272_noUDG`	`Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1_noUDG`	F	1895-1749 calBCE	Dinkha Tepe		U7a4
`I4274`	`Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1`	M	1890-1749 calBCE	Dinkha Tepe	J2a1a1b1a1a1	N1b1a5
`I4341_noUDG`	`Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1`	F	1919-1747 calBCE	Dinkha Tepe		U2e2
`I4237_noUDG` outlier	`Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1_noUDG`	F	1011-860 calBCE	Dinkha Tepe		K1a12a