Ancient population · Iron Age

Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age)

Name: Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age) (Jordan_LBA_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Jordan_LBA_IA

Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Jordan_LBA_IA), with 2 samples from Jordan, dated to c. 1350 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age), Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age) and Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh and Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include U3a and U3b.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 1350 BCE
Country: Jordan
Sampled near: Baq'ah 32.13, 35.56
Samples: 2
Published in: Agranat-TamirReichCell2020
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue: Jordan_LBA_IA

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Israel_MLBA`	1.67
2	Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)`Levant_Sidon_MBA`	2.20
3	Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)`Lebanon_MBA`	2.27
4	Jordan (Late Bronze Age)`Jordan_LBA`	2.38
5	Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA`	2.68
6	Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age, Israel)`Israel_Ashkelon_IA2`	2.70
7	Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)`Syria_Ebla_EMBA`	2.73
8	Levant Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age)`Levant_Ashkelon_LBA`	2.75
9	Israel (Iron Age)`Israel_IA`	2.77
10	Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAII`	2.81

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Samaritan`Samaritan`	2.38
2	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	3.71
3	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	3.77
4	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	3.79
5	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	3.92
6	Karaite Iraq`Karaite_Iraq`	4.53
7	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	4.57
8	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	4.82
9	Druze`Druze`	4.87
10	Karaite Egypt`Karaite_Egypt`	4.99

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

U3a2a
U3b3

Individuals 2

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
`I3703`	M	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah	J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331	U3b3
`I3986`	F	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah		U3a2a