Ancient population · Bronze Age
Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age, Israel)
Israel_Ashkelon_LBA
Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age, Israel) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Israel_Ashkelon_LBA), with 2 samples from Israel, dated to c. 1600–1560 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age), Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey) and Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh and Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include H66 and U3b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1600–1560 BCE
- Country
- Israel
- Sampled near
- Ashkelon 31.67, 34.57
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- FeldmanKrauseSciAdv2019
- Catalogue
Israel_Ashkelon_LBA
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 | Levant Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age)Levant_Ashkelon_LBA | 1.46 |
| 2 | Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA | 2.55 |
| 3 | Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)Syria_Ebla_EMBA | 2.55 |
| 4 | Lebanese Christian Greek OrthodoxLebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox | 2.66 |
| 5 | Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician | 2.66 |
| 6 | Lebanese Christian MaroniteLebanese_Christian_Maronite | 2.69 |
| 7 | Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA | 2.72 |
| 8 | Levant (Medieval, Lebanon)Levant_LBN_MA | 2.76 |
| 9 | Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Alalakh_MLBA | 2.79 |
| 10 | Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)Turkey_MBA | 2.79 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SamaritanSamaritan | 2.01 |
| 2 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 2.60 |
| 3 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 2.62 |
| 4 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 2.70 |
| 5 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 2.76 |
| 6 | DruzeDruze | 3.58 |
| 7 | Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour | 3.64 |
| 8 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 3.66 |
| 9 | Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt | 3.77 |
| 10 | Karaite IraqKaraite_Iraq | 3.82 |
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.