Ancient population · Iron Age
Birlik (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)
Kazakhstan_Birlik_IA
Birlik (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_Birlik_IA), with 1 sample from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 280 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 2 (Medieval, Mongolia), Sukhbaatar Xiongnu Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia) and Early Xiongnu rest (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Altaian, Altaian Kizhi and Khakass Kachins.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is D4b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 280 BCE
- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Sampled near
- Birlik 51.14, 75.72
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- Gnecchi-RusconeKrauseSciAdv2021
- Catalogue
Kazakhstan_Birlik_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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 2 (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khuvsgul_XiongnuLateMedieval_2 | 2.50 |
| 2 | Sukhbaatar Xiongnu Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Sukhbaatar_XiongnuLateMedieval | 3.32 |
| 3 | Early Xiongnu rest (Iron Age)Early_Xiongnu_rest | 4.30 |
| 4 | Danube Tisza Late Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_DanubeTisza_LAvar | 4.32 |
| 5 | Xinjiang Unknown (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Unknown_IA | 4.62 |
| 6 | Hun Elite (Late Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Hun_Elite_LIA | 4.70 |
| 7 | Mongolia (Bronze Age)MNG_BA | 4.71 |
| 8 | Early Avar Elite (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_EarlyAvar_Elite | 4.93 |
| 9 | Center West 4 (Late Bronze Age)Center_West_LBA_4 | 5.04 |
| 10 | Munkhkhairkhan 3 (Middle Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_MBA_Munkhkhairkhan_3 | 5.23 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AltaianAltaian | 2.69 |
| 2 | Altaian KizhiAltaian_Kizhi | 3.06 |
| 3 | Khakass KachinsKhakass_Kachins | 3.11 |
| 4 | MogushMogush | 5.14 |
| 5 | Mongol XinjiangMongol_Xinjiang | 5.45 |
| 6 | Kazakh ChinaKazakh_China | 5.49 |
| 7 | TeleutTeleut | 5.96 |
| 8 | KhakassKhakass | 6.06 |
| 9 | MongolianMongolian | 6.14 |
| 10 | TuvinianTuvinian | 6.15 |
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.