Ancient population · Iron Age
Israel (Iron Age)
Israel_IA
Israel (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Israel_IA), with 1 sample from Israel, dated to c. 1000 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age), Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age) and Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age, Israel); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh and Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is K1a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 1000 BCE
- Country
- Israel
- Sampled near
- Tel Megiddo 32.58, 35.19
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- Agranat-TamirReichCell2020
- Catalogue
Israel_IAIsrael_IA_ooutliers
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 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age)Jordan_LBA_IA | 2.77 |
| 2 | Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA | 3.33 |
| 3 | Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age, Israel)Israel_Ashkelon_LBA | 3.35 |
| 4 | Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA | 3.55 |
| 5 | Levant Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age)Levant_Ashkelon_LBA | 3.56 |
| 6 | Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)Syria_Ebla_EMBA | 3.65 |
| 7 | Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA | 3.66 |
| 8 | Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAII | 3.77 |
| 9 | Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Levant_Megiddo_MLBA | 3.77 |
| 10 | Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician | 3.80 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SamaritanSamaritan | 2.93 |
| 2 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 4.09 |
| 3 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 4.13 |
| 4 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 4.22 |
| 5 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 4.24 |
| 6 | Karaite IraqKaraite_Iraq | 4.42 |
| 7 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 5.01 |
| 8 | Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt | 5.06 |
| 9 | Iraqi JewIraqi_Jew | 5.10 |
| 10 | DruzeDruze | 5.20 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.
| Sample | Catalogue entry | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I4517 | Israel_IA | M | 1109-923 calBCE | Tel Megiddo | J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c2a J-ZS2435 | K1a |
I2201 outlier | Israel_IA_o | M | 1014-836 calBCE | Abel-Beth-Maacah | T1a1a T-L208 | X2 |