Ancient population · Neolithic
Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)
Jordan_PPNB
Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Jordan_PPNB), with 4 samples from Jordan, dated to c. 8100–7610 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B), Israel (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) and Levant PPNC (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Egyptian Copt, Saudi Mecca and Yemenite Ma'rib.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b (2), H and T1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include T1a (2), K1a and R0a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 8100–7610 BCE
- Country
- Jordan
- Sampled near
- 'Ain Ghazal 31.99, 35.98
- Samples
- 4
- Catalogue
Jordan_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 | Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Levant_PPNB | 2.59 |
| 2 | Israel (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Israel_PPNB | 3.50 |
| 3 | Levant PPNC (Neolithic)Levant_PPNC | 3.58 |
| 4 | PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan)Jordan_PPNC | 4.09 |
| 5 | Levant (Chalcolithic, Israel)Levant_ISR_C | 4.56 |
| 6 | Israel (Chalcolithic)Israel_C | 4.78 |
| 7 | Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan)Jordan_Late_PPNB | 5.74 |
| 8 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 7.71 |
| 9 | Tell Kurdu (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_TellKurdu_EC | 7.78 |
| 10 | Jordan (Early Bronze Age)Jordan_EBA | 8.75 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egyptian CoptEgyptian_Copt | 9.81 |
| 2 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 10.00 |
| 3 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 10.45 |
| 4 | Saudi JizanSaudi_Jizan | 10.58 |
| 5 | Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf | 10.66 |
| 6 | Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar | 10.75 |
| 7 | SamaritanSamaritan | 10.81 |
| 8 | Yemenite MahraYemenite_Mahra | 10.83 |
| 9 | Tunisian JewTunisian_Jew | 10.89 |
| 10 | Yemenite JewYemenite_Jew | 10.94 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 4
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.