Ancient population · Neolithic
Iraq (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A)
Iraq_PPNA
Iraq (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Iraq_PPNA), with 2 samples from Iraq, dated to c. 8750–1350 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Hajji Firuz (Neolithic, Iran), Nemrik9 (Late Bronze Age) and SE Sirnak (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Kurdish Jew, Nash Didan Jew Urmia and Iraqi Jew.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include HV1 and J1d.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 8750–1350 BCE
- Country
- Iraq
- Sampled near
- Nemrik 9 36.72, 42.85
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Iraq_PPNA
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 | Hajji Firuz (Neolithic, Iran)Iran_HajjiFiruz_N | 3.55 |
| 2 | Nemrik9 (Late Bronze Age)Nemrik9_LBA | 3.59 |
| 3 | SE Sirnak (Bronze Age)SE_Sirnak_BA | 3.62 |
| 4 | Hajji Firuz (Chalcolithic)Hajji_Firuz_C | 3.76 |
| 5 | Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age)DinkhaTepe_BIA_A | 3.79 |
| 6 | Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IATurkey_IA | 4.09 |
| 7 | Dinkha Tepe 1 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran)Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1 | 4.10 |
| 8 | Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_PostMedieval | 4.44 |
| 9 | Turkey (Medieval)Turkey_Medieval | 4.60 |
| 10 | Turkey (Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)Turkey_LateC_EBA | 4.77 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kurdish JewKurdish_Jew | 3.51 |
| 2 | Nash Didan Jew UrmiaNash_Didan_Jew_Urmia | 3.55 |
| 3 | Iraqi JewIraqi_Jew | 3.70 |
| 4 | Iranian JewIranian_Jew | 4.08 |
| 5 | Mountain Jew DagestanMountain_Jew_Dagestan | 4.12 |
| 6 | AssyrianAssyrian | 4.19 |
| 7 | Mountain Jew AzerbaijanMountain_Jew_Azerbaijan | 4.21 |
| 8 | Chaldean IraqChaldean_Iraq | 4.32 |
| 9 | IraqiIraqi | 4.43 |
| 10 | Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa | 4.44 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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 | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I6441_d | M | 1500-1200 BCE | Nemrik 9 | J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919 | HV1a'b'c |
I6445 | F | 9500-8000 BCE | Nemrik 9 | J1d |