Ancient population · Bronze Age

Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)

Israel_MLBA

Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Israel_MLBA), with 24 samples from Israel, dated to c. 1900–1220 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age), Jordan (Late Bronze Age) and Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura and Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a (9), J2a (3) and E1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include N1b (4), H (3), T1a (2) and T2c (2).

Date
c. 1900–1220 BCE
Country
Israel
Sampled near
Tel Megiddo 32.58, 35.18
Sites
Tel Megiddo (19)
Hazor (3)
Tel Shadud
Yehud
Samples
24
Catalogue
Israel_MLBA
Israel_MLBA_o outliers
Israel_MLBA_oCaucasus outliers

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.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA1.31
2Jordan (Late Bronze Age)Jordan_LBA1.32
3Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA1.40
4Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age)Jordan_LBA_IA1.67
5Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Levant_Megiddo_MLBA1.70
6Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age, Israel)Israel_Ashkelon_IA22.22
7Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)Syria_Ebla_EMBA2.23
8Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAII2.33
9Levant Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age)Levant_Ashkelon_LBA2.67
10IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_IA32.69
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SamaritanSamaritan2.36
2Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura3.48
3Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta3.54
4Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh3.55
5Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian3.55
6Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour3.85
7Karaite IraqKaraite_Iraq4.44
8Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze4.58
9DruzeDruze4.63
10Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt4.82

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

19 men with a call

mtDNA

23 individuals with a call

Individuals 26

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I10092Israel_MLBAF1900-1700 BCETel MegiddoN1b1a2
I10093Israel_MLBAM1900-1700 BCETel MegiddoJ1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331N1b1
I10097Israel_MLBAF1600-1500 BCETel MegiddoT1a
I10099Israel_MLBAF1600-1500 BCETel MegiddoT2c1a
I10104Israel_MLBAM1950-1800 BCETel MegiddoJ1a3 J-Y29696T2e
I10106Israel_MLBAM1700-1500 BCETel MegiddoJ1a2a1a2 J-P58T2b7a
I10264Israel_MLBAM1881-1697 calBCETel MegiddoJ1a2a1a2 J-P58T1a
I10266Israel_MLBAM1628-1406 calBCETel MegiddoJ2a2a1a J-PF5000
I10268Israel_MLBAM2010-1779 calBCETel MegiddoJ1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y3081K
I10768Israel_MLBAM1600-1500 BCETel MegiddoR1b1a1b R-M269J2a2a2
I10770Israel_MLBAM1550-1450 BCETel MegiddoE1b1b1b2a1a E-M84T2c1
I10771Israel_MLBAF1650-1550 BCETel MegiddoU1a1a3
I2062Israel_MLBAM1384-1112 calBCETel ShadudR1b1a1b R-M269H
I2190Israel_MLBAM1497-1302 calBCETel MegiddoJ2a1a1a2b2a1a J-M92H14a
I2195Israel_MLBAM1532-1285 calBCETel MegiddoJ1a2a1a2 J-Z643U3b
I2198Israel_MLBAM1506-1431 calBCETel MegiddoJ1a2a1a2 J-P58H5'36
I3832Israel_MLBAF1450-1250 BCEHazorN1b1a2
I3965Israel_MLBAM1800-1600 BCEHazorJ1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331HV1b3
I3966Israel_MLBAM1800-1600 BCEHazorE1b1b1b2a1a E-Y5413R0a2
I4518Israel_MLBAM1550-1300 BCETel MegiddoT1a1a1b2a T-Y261958HV2a1
I4519Israel_MLBAM1516-1436 calBCETel MegiddoJ2a1a1a2b2a1a J-M92H
I4525Israel_MLBAM1600-1500 BCETel MegiddoJ1 J-Z2215K1a18
I7003Israel_MLBAM2000-1550 BCEYehudJ2b1 J-M205N1b1a2
I8187Israel_MLBAM1800-1650 BCETel MegiddoJ1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Z2317H2a2a
I10100 outlierIsrael_MLBA_oCaucasusF1686-1534 calBCETel MegiddoT2
I2200 outlierIsrael_MLBA_oF1600-1500 BCETel MegiddoU3b