Ancient population · Bronze Age

Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)

Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA

Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA), with 4 samples from Central Anatolia Region, Turkey, dated to c. 1870–1620 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey), Old Hittite Period (Bronze Age, Turkey) and II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Cypriot, Greek Dodecanese Rhodes and Greek Central Anatolia.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c, J2b, K1a and U1a.

Date
c. 1870–1620 BCE
Country
Turkey
Origin
Central Anatolia Region, Turkey
Sampled near
Kalehöyük 39.35, 33.79
Samples
4
Catalogue
Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA

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
#PopulationDistance
1Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod1.28
2Old Hittite Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_OldHittitePeriod1.45
3II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_EBA_II1.57
4Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)Ovaoren_EBA1.75
5Turkey (Chalcolithic)Turkey_C2.05
6Turkey (Early Bronze Age)Turkey_EBA2.20
7Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic)C_Gordion_Anc2.21
8Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_CamlibelTarlasi_LateC2.37
9Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Roman_52.38
10Persian (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Persian2.65
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1CypriotCypriot3.19
2Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes3.76
3Greek Central AnatoliaGreek_Central_Anatolia3.94
4Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese4.20
5Greek KosGreek_Kos4.38
6Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew4.60
7Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh4.65
8DruzeDruze4.66
9Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta4.70
10Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian4.78

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
MA2200M1750-1500 BCEKalehöyükJ2a1a1a2b2a2b2 J-FT156609K1a
MA2203F1750-1500 BCEKalehöyükJ1c
MA2205M2000-1750 BCEKalehöyükJ2a1a1a2b2a2b2b J-Y23174J2b1
MA2206F2000-1750 BCEKalehöyükU1a