Ancient population · Bronze Age

Shahr ISokhta BA1 (Bronze Age, Iran)

Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA1

Shahr ISokhta BA1 (Bronze Age, Iran) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA1), with 4 samples from Iran, dated to c. 2910–2550 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Gonur 1 (Bronze Age, Turkmenistan), Geoksyur (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan) and Geoksyur (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Balochi, Balochi Pakistan and Brahui.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2a (3) and L1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1, M33a, R5a and U1a.

Date
c. 2910–2550 BCE
Country
Iran
Sampled near
Shahr-i Sokhta 30.65, 61.40
Samples
4
Catalogue
Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA1

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
1Gonur 1 (Bronze Age, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_Gonur_BA_13.63
2Geoksyur (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_Geoksyur3.65
3Geoksyur (Neolithic)Geoksyur_N3.71
4Tepe Anau (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_TepeAnau3.72
5Dzharkutan 1 (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Dzharkutan_BA_13.92
6Parkhai (Early Bronze Age, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_EBA_Parkhai4.03
7Parkhai (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_Parkhai4.03
8Namazga Tepe En (Chalcolithic)Namazga_Tepe_En4.19
9Namazga (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_Namazga4.25
10Bustan (Eneolithic, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Bustan_Eneolithic4.29
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1BalochiBalochi6.91
2Balochi PakistanBalochi_Pakistan6.91
3BrahuiBrahui6.95
4MakraniMakrani7.25
5Balochi IranBalochi_Iran7.41
6Iranian BandariIranian_Bandari9.28
7Pashtun AfghanistanPashtun_Afghanistan9.84
8Pashtun Afghanistan PaktiaPashtun_Afghanistan_Paktia9.92
9KalashKalash9.97
10Pashtun Pakistan BettaniPashtun_Pakistan_Bettani10.20

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

mtDNA

4 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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I11462M2911-2881 calBCEShahr-i SokhtaL1a2a L-Z20267M33a2a
I11474M2700-2600 BCEShahr-i SokhtaJ2a2a1a1a2a J-Y25795R5a2b
I11478M3200-1900 BCEShahr-i SokhtaJ2a1a4b J-Y17404U1a1c1d
I8725M3010-2881 calBCEShahr-i SokhtaJ2a1a1b1 J-BY205565J1
I11476 outlierF3200-2100 BCEShahr-i SokhtaT1a3
I8724 outlierM3050-2850 BCEShahr-i SokhtaJ2 J-M410I1