Ancient population · Bronze Age
IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)
Israel_IBA
IBA (Bronze Age, Israel) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Israel_IBA), with 1 sample from Israel, dated to c. 2240 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Jordan (Late Bronze Age), Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age) and Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Saudi A and Yemenite Amran.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2b; its mtDNA haplogroup is H20a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2240 BCE
- Country
- Israel
- Sampled near
- Tel Megiddo 32.58, 35.19
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- Agranat-TamirReichCell2020
- Catalogue
Israel_IBA
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)Jordan_LBA | 2.74 |
| 2 | Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA | 2.83 |
| 3 | Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAII | 3.15 |
| 4 | Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA | 3.27 |
| 5 | Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA | 3.30 |
| 6 | IA2 (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_IA2 | 3.31 |
| 7 | Jordan (Early Bronze Age)Jordan_EBA | 3.32 |
| 8 | Levant Baqah (Bronze Age)Levant_Baqah_BA | 3.86 |
| 9 | Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Levant_Megiddo_MLBA | 3.89 |
| 10 | Levant Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age)Levant_Ashkelon_IA2 | 3.93 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SamaritanSamaritan | 3.96 |
| 2 | Saudi ASaudiA | 5.12 |
| 3 | Yemenite AmranYemenite_Amran | 5.17 |
| 4 | Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour | 5.19 |
| 5 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 5.34 |
| 6 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 5.35 |
| 7 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 5.54 |
| 8 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 5.56 |
| 9 | PalestinianPalestinian | 5.56 |
| 10 | JordanianJordanian | 5.59 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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.