Ancient population · Neolithic
Ganj Dareh (Neolithic, Iran)
Iran_GanjDareh_N
Ganj Dareh (Neolithic, Iran) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Iran_GanjDareh_N), with 5 samples from Iran, dated to c. 8210–7850 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tepe Abdul Hosein (Neolithic), Tepe Abdul Hosein (Neolithic, Iran) and Wezmeh (Neolithic, Iran); the nearest living populations are Makrani, Balochi and Balochi Pakistan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R2 (4); its mtDNA haplogroups include R2b (3), J1 and X.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 8210–7850 BCE
- Country
- Iran
- Sampled near
- Ganj Dareh 34.45, 48.12
- Samples
- 5
- Catalogue
Iran_GanjDareh_N
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tepe Abdul Hosein (Neolithic)Tepe_Abdul_Hosein_N | 1.29 |
| 2 | Tepe Abdul Hosein (Neolithic, Iran)Iran_TepeAbdulHosein_N | 1.29 |
| 3 | Wezmeh (Neolithic, Iran)Iran_Wezmeh_N | 3.74 |
| 4 | Wezmeh (Neolithic)Wezmeh_N | 3.74 |
| 5 | Seh Gabi (Late Neolithic)Seh_Gabi_LN | 5.18 |
| 6 | Bustan (Eneolithic, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Bustan_Eneolithic | 5.56 |
| 7 | Tepe Anau (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_TepeAnau | 5.65 |
| 8 | Parkhai (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_Parkhai | 5.99 |
| 9 | Hotu IIIb (Mesolithic)HotuIIIb_Meso | 6.58 |
| 10 | Shahr ISokhta BA1 (Bronze Age, Iran)Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA1 | 6.81 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MakraniMakrani | 11.16 |
| 2 | BalochiBalochi | 11.76 |
| 3 | Balochi PakistanBalochi_Pakistan | 11.76 |
| 4 | BrahuiBrahui | 11.77 |
| 5 | Balochi IranBalochi_Iran | 12.17 |
| 6 | Iranian BandariIranian_Bandari | 13.32 |
| 7 | Iranian MazandaraniIranian_Mazandarani | 15.02 |
| 8 | Parsi IndiaParsi_India | 15.47 |
| 9 | Pashtun AfghanistanPashtun_Afghanistan | 15.49 |
| 10 | Pashtun Afghanistan PaktiaPashtun_Afghanistan_Paktia | 15.55 |
Haplogroups
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.