Ancient population · Iron Age
Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age, Israel)
Israel_Ashkelon_IA2
Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age, Israel) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Israel_Ashkelon_IA2), with 2 samples from Israel, dated to c. 1150–1140 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age), Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age) and Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Palestinian Beit Sahour and Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1 and L; its mtDNA haplogroups include H2c and H4a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 1150–1140 BCE
- Country
- Israel
- Sampled near
- Ashkelon 31.67, 34.57
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- FeldmanKrauseSciAdv2019
- Catalogue
Israel_Ashkelon_IA2
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 | Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA | 2.22 |
| 2 | Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Levant_Megiddo_MLBA | 2.42 |
| 3 | Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA | 2.43 |
| 4 | Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA | 2.49 |
| 5 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age)Jordan_LBA | 2.59 |
| 6 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age)Jordan_LBA_IA | 2.70 |
| 7 | Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)Syria_Ebla_EMBA | 3.00 |
| 8 | Levant Beirut ERoman (Antiquity)Levant_Beirut_ERoman | 3.04 |
| 9 | Levant Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age)Levant_Ashkelon_IA2 | 3.07 |
| 10 | Levant Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age)Levant_Ashkelon_LBA | 3.13 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SamaritanSamaritan | 3.12 |
| 2 | Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour | 3.90 |
| 3 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 4.02 |
| 4 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 4.10 |
| 5 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 4.15 |
| 6 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 4.17 |
| 7 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 5.01 |
| 8 | DruzeDruze | 5.02 |
| 9 | Iraqi JewIraqi_Jew | 5.13 |
| 10 | Karaite IraqKaraite_Iraq | 5.17 |
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.