Ancient population · Iron Age

Central Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Central_Saka

Name: Central Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Central_Saka (Kazakhstan_Central_Saka)
Creator: Genoplot

Kazakhstan_Central_Saka

Central Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Central_Saka is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_Central_Saka), with 4 samples from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 630–600 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Saka Kazakh steppe (Iron Age), Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan) and Sagly 4 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia); the nearest living populations are Bashkir, Tatar Siberian and Nogai Dobruja.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include A, F1b, H101 and U2e.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 630–600 BCE
Country: Kazakhstan
Sampled near: Borli 49.40, 74.83
Sites: Borli
Karashoky-1
Nazar-2
Taldy-2
Samples: 4
Published in: DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
Catalogue: Kazakhstan_Central_Saka.SG variant

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	Saka Kazakh steppe (Iron Age)`Saka_Kazakh_steppe`	0.66
2	Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Tasmola_EIA`	1.17
3	Sagly 4 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_EIA_Sagly_4`	1.45
4	Tasmola (Iron Age)`Tasmola_IA`	1.51
5	Berel (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Berel_IA`	2.04
6	Xinjiang Dongtalede (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Dongtalede_IA`	2.11
7	Altai (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Altai_MLBA`	2.22
8	Altai (Iron Age)`Altai_IA`	2.48
9	Khovd (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Khovd_MLBA`	3.04
10	Xinjiang Junmachanyilian (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Junmachanyilian_IA`	3.04

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bashkir`Bashkir`	4.36
2	Tatar Siberian`Tatar_Siberian`	4.59
3	Nogai Dobruja`Nogai_Dobruja`	7.38
4	Nogai`Nogai`	7.52
5	Uzbek`Uzbek`	8.09
6	Tatar Siberian Zabolotniye`Tatar_Siberian_Zabolotniye`	8.88
7	Hazara Afghanistan`Hazara_Afghanistan`	9.13
8	Karakalpak`Karakalpak`	9.26
9	Tatar Crimean steppe`Tatar_Crimean_steppe`	9.53
10	Uygur`Uygur`	9.66

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1a1a1b2a2a3b R-YP1548 2

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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
`DA11_noUDG.SG`	F	777-423 calBCE	Borli		F1b1
`DA13_noUDG.SG`	M	767-422 calBCE	Taldy-2	R1a1a1b2a2a3b R-YP1548	A
`DA14_noUDG.SG`	F	767-419 calBCE	Karashoky-1		H101
`DA16_noUDG.SG`	M	756-416 calBCE	Nazar-2	R1a1a1b2a2a3b R-YP1455	U2e1'2'3
`DA15_noUDG.SG` outlier	M	769-418 calBCE	Karashoky-6	R1a1a R-M198	C4d