Ancient population · Bronze Age

Central Steppe (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)

Kazakhstan_Central_Steppe_EMBA

Central Steppe (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Kazakhstan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_Central_Steppe_EMBA), with 2 samples from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 2530–2160 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kazakh steppe (Early–Middle Bronze Age), Okunevo (Bronze Age, Russia) and Okunevo (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Tatar Siberian Zabolotniye, Tlingit and Mansi.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include C4 and C4a.

Date
c. 2530–2160 BCE
Country
Kazakhstan
Sampled near
Grigor'yevka-2 52.13, 75.70
Sites
Grigor'yevka-2
Sjolpan-4
Samples
2
Catalogue
Kazakhstan_Central_Steppe_EMBA.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
#PopulationDistance
1Kazakh steppe (Early–Middle Bronze Age)Kazakh_steppe_EMBA0.75
2Okunevo (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_BA_Okunevo3.57
3Okunevo (Bronze Age)Okunevo_BA3.57
4Kanai (Middle Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Kanai_MBA5.40
5Bolshoy (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Bolshoy9.64
6Bolshoy Oleni Ostrov (Bronze Age)Bolshoy_Oleni_Ostrov9.68
7Siberia Tenisei (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Siberia_Tenisei_EBA10.25
8Botai (Eneolithic, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Botai_Eneolithic10.82
9Xinjiang Liushui (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Liushui_IA11.06
10Kusnarenkovo Karajakupovo (Medieval, Russia)Russia_KusnarenkovoKarajakupovo_Medieval11.24
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Tatar Siberian ZabolotniyeTatar_Siberian_Zabolotniye12.56
2TlingitTlingit12.61
3MansiMansi13.42
4KhantyKhanty13.60
5Komi BKomi_B13.96
6Shor MountainShor_Mountain14.13
7Shor KhakassiaShor_Khakassia14.25
8Tatar SiberianTatar_Siberian14.41
9TubalarTubalar14.42
10Greenlander WestGreenlander_West14.77

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
EBA1_noUDG.SGF2286-2036 calBCEGrigor'yevka-2C4
EBA2_noUDG.SGF2622-2465 calBCESjolpan-4C4a1a4a