Ancient population · Iron Age
Ashkelon IA1 (Iron Age, Israel)
Israel_Ashkelon_IA1
Ashkelon IA1 (Iron Age, Israel) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Israel_Ashkelon_IA1), with 2 samples from Israel, dated to c. 1260–1230 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Turkey (Early Bronze Age), Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age) and II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Cypriot, Lebanese Christian and Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups IJ and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H92 and T2c.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 1260–1230 BCE
- Country
- Israel
- Sampled near
- Ashkelon 31.67, 34.57
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- FeldmanKrauseSciAdv2019
- Catalogue
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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 | Turkey (Early Bronze Age)Turkey_EBA | 3.02 |
| 2 | Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)Ovaoren_EBA | 3.38 |
| 3 | II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_EBA_II | 3.39 |
| 4 | Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Roman_5 | 3.55 |
| 5 | Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII | 3.57 |
| 6 | Lebanese Christian Greek OrthodoxLebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox | 3.59 |
| 7 | Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Hellenistic | 3.62 |
| 8 | Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA | 3.63 |
| 9 | IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_IA3 | 3.64 |
| 10 | Lebanese Christian MaroniteLebanese_Christian_Maronite | 3.68 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CypriotCypriot | 3.27 |
| 2 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 3.58 |
| 3 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 3.69 |
| 4 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 3.72 |
| 5 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 3.83 |
| 6 | DruzeDruze | 4.08 |
| 7 | Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes | 4.12 |
| 8 | Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew | 4.17 |
| 9 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 4.24 |
| 10 | Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt | 4.44 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
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.