Ancient population · Antiquity

Ganj Dareh Historic (Antiquity, Iran)

Name: Ganj Dareh Historic (Antiquity, Iran) (Iran_GanjDareh_Historic)
Creator: Genoplot

Iran_GanjDareh_Historic

Ganj Dareh Historic (Antiquity, Iran) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Iran_GanjDareh_Historic), with 1 sample from Iran, dated to c. 1560 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Dinkha Tepe BIA B (Iron Age), Hasanlu (Iron Age) and Hasanlu (Iron Age, Iran); the nearest living populations are Alevi Dersim, Kurd Kurmanji Turkey and Kurd Iraq.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is U1a.

Period: Antiquity
Date: c. 1560 CE
Country: Iran
Sampled near: Ganj Dareh 34.45, 48.12
Samples: 1
Published in: LazaridisReichNature2016
Catalogue: Iran_GanjDareh_Historic

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 B (Iron Age)`DinkhaTepe_BIA_B`	3.79
2	Hasanlu (Iron Age)`Hasanlu_IA`	3.87
3	Hasanlu (Iron Age, Iran)`Iran_Hasanlu_IA`	3.95
4	Achaemenid Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Achaemenid_Hellenistic`	4.07
5	Turkish East`Turkish_East`	4.14
6	Hajji Firuz (Iron Age, Iran)`Iran_HajjiFiruz_IA`	4.25
7	Dinkha Tepe 2 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran)`Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_2`	4.48
8	Armenia (Late Iron Age)`Armenia_LIA`	4.76
9	Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA`Armenia_LBA`	4.92
10	Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_LateHellenistic`	4.92

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Alevi Dersim`Alevi_Dersim`	3.15
2	Kurd Kurmanji Turkey`Kurd_Kurmanji_Turkey`	3.23
3	Kurd Iraq`Kurd_Iraq`	3.25
4	Kurd Zaza Turkey`Kurd_Zaza_Turkey`	3.25
5	Azerbaijani Turkey`Azerbaijani_Turkey`	3.29
6	Azeri Turkey`Azeri_Turkey`	3.29
7	Ezid`Ezid`	3.36
8	Iranian Central`Iranian_Central`	3.38
9	Iranian Zoroastrian`Iranian_Zoroastrian`	3.43
10	Iranian Lor`Iranian_Lor`	3.44

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

U1a1a3

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	mtDNA
`I1955`	F	1480-1640 calCE	Ganj Dareh	U1a1a3