Ancient population · Bronze Age
Jordan (Early Bronze Age)
Jordan_EBA
Jordan (Early Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Jordan_EBA), with 3 samples from Jordan, dated to c. 2410–2080 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to IBA (Bronze Age, Israel), Jordan (Late Bronze Age) and Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Saudi A, Saudi Mecca and Yemenite Amran.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a and J2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H14a, R0a and X2n.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2410–2080 BCE
- Country
- Jordan
- Sampled near
- 'Ain Ghazal 31.99, 35.98
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- LazaridisReichNature2016
- Catalogue
Jordan_EBA
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 | IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)Israel_IBA | 3.32 |
| 2 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age)Jordan_LBA | 4.05 |
| 3 | Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA | 4.37 |
| 4 | Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA | 4.71 |
| 5 | Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA | 4.77 |
| 6 | Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAII | 5.10 |
| 7 | Levant Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age)Levant_Ashkelon_IA2 | 5.10 |
| 8 | Levant Baqah (Bronze Age)Levant_Baqah_BA | 5.14 |
| 9 | IA2 (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_IA2 | 5.15 |
| 10 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 5.19 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi ASaudiA | 4.23 |
| 2 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 4.35 |
| 3 | Yemenite AmranYemenite_Amran | 4.51 |
| 4 | Saudi NajdSaudi_Najd | 4.64 |
| 5 | Yemenite JewYemenite_Jew | 4.71 |
| 6 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 4.87 |
| 7 | Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf | 4.97 |
| 8 | SaudiSaudi | 5.13 |
| 9 | Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar | 5.22 |
| 10 | Yemenite Al BaydaYemenite_Al_Bayda | 5.32 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I1705 | M | 2198-1961 calBCE | 'Ain Ghazal | J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331 | H14a |
I1706 | F | 2500-2300 BCE | 'Ain Ghazal | X2n | |
I1730 | M | 2557-2296 calBCE | 'Ain Ghazal | J2b1 J-Y3165 | R0a1a |