Ancient population · Neolithic
Israel (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)
Israel_PPNB
Israel (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Israel_PPNB), with 1 sample from Israel, dated to c. 5750 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B), PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan) and Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B); the nearest living populations are Saudi Mecca, Egyptian Copt and Saudi Jizan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup H2b; its mtDNA haplogroup is K1a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 5750 BCE
- Country
- Israel
- Sampled near
- Motza 31.80, 35.17
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichNature2016
- Catalogue
Israel_PPNB
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 (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Jordan_PPNB | 3.50 |
| 2 | PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan)Jordan_PPNC | 4.12 |
| 3 | Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Levant_PPNB | 4.25 |
| 4 | Levant PPNC (Neolithic)Levant_PPNC | 4.28 |
| 5 | Levant (Chalcolithic, Israel)Levant_ISR_C | 5.82 |
| 6 | Israel (Chalcolithic)Israel_C | 5.86 |
| 7 | Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan)Jordan_Late_PPNB | 6.34 |
| 8 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 9.10 |
| 9 | Tell Kurdu (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_TellKurdu_EC | 9.19 |
| 10 | Jordan (Early Bronze Age)Jordan_EBA | 9.86 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 11.00 |
| 2 | Egyptian CoptEgyptian_Copt | 11.09 |
| 3 | Saudi JizanSaudi_Jizan | 11.37 |
| 4 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 11.43 |
| 5 | Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf | 11.53 |
| 6 | Yemenite MahraYemenite_Mahra | 11.56 |
| 7 | Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar | 11.78 |
| 8 | Yemenite JewYemenite_Jew | 11.86 |
| 9 | Bedouin BBedouinB | 11.86 |
| 10 | Yemenite Al BaydaYemenite_Al_Bayda | 12.06 |
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.