Ancient population · Chalcolithic
Israel (Chalcolithic)
Israel_C
Israel (Chalcolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Israel_C), with 15 samples from Israel, dated to c. 4380–4000 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant (Chalcolithic, Israel), Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) and Levant PPNC (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Saudi Mecca and Yemenite Ma'rib.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups T1a (6) and E1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include J2a (3), I6 (2), K1a (2) and T1a (2).
- Period
- Chalcolithic
- Date
- c. 4380–4000 BCE
- Country
- Israel
- Sampled near
- Peki'in 32.97, 35.33
- Samples
- 15
- Published in
- HarneyReichNatComm2018
LazaridisReichNature2025 - Catalogue
Israel_C
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 (Chalcolithic, Israel)Levant_ISR_C | 2.13 |
| 2 | Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Jordan_PPNB | 4.78 |
| 3 | Levant PPNC (Neolithic)Levant_PPNC | 5.13 |
| 4 | Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Levant_PPNB | 5.37 |
| 5 | PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan)Jordan_PPNC | 5.62 |
| 6 | Israel (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Israel_PPNB | 5.86 |
| 7 | Jordan (Early Bronze Age)Jordan_EBA | 5.90 |
| 8 | IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)Israel_IBA | 6.14 |
| 9 | Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan)Jordan_Late_PPNB | 6.16 |
| 10 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 6.22 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SamaritanSamaritan | 7.94 |
| 2 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 8.02 |
| 3 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 8.27 |
| 4 | Yemenite JewYemenite_Jew | 8.34 |
| 5 | Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf | 8.41 |
| 6 | Saudi ASaudiA | 8.67 |
| 7 | Yemenite MahraYemenite_Mahra | 8.71 |
| 8 | Saudi NajdSaudi_Najd | 8.76 |
| 9 | Yemenite AmranYemenite_Amran | 8.80 |
| 10 | Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar | 8.81 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 15
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I0644 | F | 4450-3950 BCE | Peki'in | H2 | |
I1152 | F | 4450-3950 BCE | Peki'in | J2a2 | |
I1160 | M | 4450-3950 BCE | Peki'in | T1a1a T-L208 | I6 |
I1164 | F | 4212-3966 calBCE | Peki'in | J2a2d | |
I1165 | M | 4046-3959 calBCE | Peki'in | T1a1a T-L208 | HV1a'b'c |
I1168 | F | 4450-3950 BCE | Peki'in | T2e | |
I1169 | F | 4450-3950 BCE | Peki'in | J2a2d | |
I1170 | M | 4450-3950 BCE | Peki'in | T1a1a T-L208 | T1a2 |
I1171 | M | 4156-3963 calBCE | Peki'in | E1b1b E-M35 | K1a |
I1172 | M | 4450-3950 BCE | Peki'in | T1a1 T-L162 | K1a |
I1178 | M | 4450-3950 BCE | Peki'in | T1a1a T-L208 | I6 |
I1179 | F | 4450-3950 BCE | Peki'in | T2e | |
I1182 | F | 4450-3950 BCE | Peki'in | T1a | |
I1184 | F | 4450-3950 BCE | Peki'in | T1 | |
I1187 | M | 4446-4337 calBCE | Peki'in | T1a1 T-L162 | R0 |