Ancient population · Neolithic
PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan)
Jordan_PPNC
PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Jordan_PPNC), with 1 sample from Jordan, dated to c. 6750 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B), Levant PPNC (Neolithic) and Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B); the nearest living populations are Saudi Mecca, Egyptian Copt and Yemenite Ma'rib.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is R0a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 6750 BCE
- Country
- Jordan
- Sampled near
- 'Ain Ghazal 31.99, 35.98
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichNature2016
- Catalogue
Jordan_PPNC
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 | 3.56 |
| 2 | Levant PPNC (Neolithic)Levant_PPNC | 4.03 |
| 3 | Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Jordan_PPNB | 4.09 |
| 4 | Israel (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Israel_PPNB | 4.12 |
| 5 | Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan)Jordan_Late_PPNB | 4.53 |
| 6 | Levant (Chalcolithic, Israel)Levant_ISR_C | 5.52 |
| 7 | Israel (Chalcolithic)Israel_C | 5.62 |
| 8 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 7.96 |
| 9 | Natufian d (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel)Israel_Natufian_d | 9.02 |
| 10 | Levant Natufian (Epipaleolithic)Levant_Natufian_EpiP | 9.36 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 10.16 |
| 2 | Egyptian CoptEgyptian_Copt | 10.18 |
| 3 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 10.29 |
| 4 | Saudi JizanSaudi_Jizan | 10.41 |
| 5 | Yemenite MahraYemenite_Mahra | 10.45 |
| 6 | Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf | 10.45 |
| 7 | Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar | 10.64 |
| 8 | Bedouin BBedouinB | 10.73 |
| 9 | Yemenite JewYemenite_Jew | 10.76 |
| 10 | Yemenite Al BaydaYemenite_Al_Bayda | 10.94 |
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I1699 | F | 6800-6700 BCE | 'Ain Ghazal | R0a2 |