Ancient population · Bronze Age

Jordan (Late Bronze Age)

Name: Jordan (Late Bronze Age) (Jordan_LBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Jordan_LBA

Jordan (Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Jordan_LBA), with 10 samples from Jordan, dated to c. 1430–1330 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age), Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age) and Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Palestinian Beit Sahour and Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a (5); its mtDNA haplogroups include N1b (2), H, I5 and J1b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1430–1330 BCE
Country: Jordan
Sampled near: Baq'ah 32.13, 35.56
Samples: 10
Published in: AkbariReichNature2026
Agranat-TamirReichCell2020
Catalogue: Jordan_LBA

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	Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)`Lebanon_MBA`	1.32
2	Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Israel_MLBA`	1.32
3	Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)`Levant_Sidon_MBA`	1.57
4	Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA`	1.86
5	Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAII`	2.20
6	Levant Baqah (Bronze Age)`Levant_Baqah_BA`	2.32
7	Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age)`Jordan_LBA_IA`	2.38
8	IA2 (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_IA2`	2.48
9	Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age, Israel)`Israel_Ashkelon_IA2`	2.59
10	ERoman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Lebanon_ERoman`	2.68

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Samaritan`Samaritan`	2.97
2	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	3.76
3	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	3.89
4	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	3.89
5	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	3.97
6	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	4.05
7	Druze`Druze`	4.97
8	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	5.01
9	Karaite Iraq`Karaite_Iraq`	5.16
10	Karaite Egypt`Karaite_Egypt`	5.34

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

5 men with a call

J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919 5

mtDNA

9 individuals with a call

Individuals 17

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I3705`	M	1493-1304 calBCE	Baq'ah	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919	J1b2
`I3706`	M	1425-1284 calBCE	Baq'ah	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919	L0f2b
`I3707`	F	1413-1264 calBCE	Baq'ah		N1b1a
`I3985`	M	1415-1230 calBCE	Baq'ah	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919	N1b1a2
`I3987`	M	1428-1290 calBCE	Baq'ah	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919	N2a1
`I6460`	M	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919	U4a
`I6564`	F	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah		U3b3
`I6567`	F	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah		H
`I6571`	F	1497-1397 calBCE	Baq'ah		I5
`I6572`	F	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah
`I6459` outlier	M	1386-1212 calBCE	Baq'ah	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919	T1a1
`I6462` outlier	F	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah		U3a3
`I6464` outlier	M	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-ZS1541	U3b1a
`I6565` outlier	F	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah		H1
`I6566` outlier	M	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y3441	U3b
`I6569` outlier	M	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919	T2c1a
`I6570` outlier	F	1550-1150 BCE	Baq'ah		T2c1a