Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer
Natufian (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel)
Israel_Natufian
Natufian (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Israel_Natufian), with 1 sample from Israel, dated to c. 10750 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant Natufian (Epipaleolithic), Natufian d (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel) and Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan); the nearest living populations are Saudi Jizan, Yemenite Mahra and Sudan Arab Rashaayda.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E; its mtDNA haplogroup is JT.
- Period
- Hunter-Gatherer
- Date
- c. 10750 BCE
- Country
- Israel
- Sampled near
- Raqefet Cave 32.65, 35.07
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichNature2016
- Catalogue
Israel_Natufian
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 Natufian (Epipaleolithic)Levant_Natufian_EpiP | 8.04 |
| 2 | Natufian d (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel)Israel_Natufian_d | 8.14 |
| 3 | Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan)Jordan_Late_PPNB | 8.36 |
| 4 | Tell Qarassa Umayyad (Medieval, Syria)Syria_TellQarassa_Umayyad | 9.61 |
| 5 | PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan)Jordan_PPNC | 10.75 |
| 6 | Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Levant_PPNB | 10.75 |
| 7 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 11.08 |
| 8 | Hellenistic (Antiquity)Hellenistic | 11.78 |
| 9 | Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian | 11.81 |
| 10 | Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Jordan_PPNB | 12.11 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi JizanSaudi_Jizan | 8.94 |
| 2 | Yemenite MahraYemenite_Mahra | 8.95 |
| 3 | Sudan Arab RashaaydaSudan_Arab_Rashaayda | 9.31 |
| 4 | Bedouin BBedouinB | 9.50 |
| 5 | Yemenite Al BaydaYemenite_Al_Bayda | 9.92 |
| 6 | Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf | 9.99 |
| 7 | Tunisian RbayaTunisian_Rbaya | 9.99 |
| 8 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 10.06 |
| 9 | Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar | 10.06 |
| 10 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 10.31 |
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.