Ancient population · Iron Age

Central Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_CentralSaka

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

Kazakhstan_CentralSaka

Central Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_CentralSaka is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_CentralSaka), with 3 samples from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 750–600 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kangju (Antiquity, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_Kangju, Kangju (Antiquity, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Kangju and Arkhangai Xiongnu Early Medieval 1 (Medieval, Mongolia); the nearest living populations are Pamiri Rushan, Tajik Rushan and Pamiri Shugnan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b and R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include C4a, H10 and U7a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 750–600 BCE
Country: Kazakhstan
Sampled near: Birlik 47.78, 72.29
Sites: Birlik
Karaterekh
Sjartas
Samples: 3
Published in: DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
Catalogue: Kazakhstan_CentralSaka_o2.SG outliers
Kazakhstan_CentralSaka_o1.SG outliers

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	Kangju (Antiquity, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_Kangju`KAZ_Kangju`	2.73
2	Kangju (Antiquity, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Kangju`Kazakhstan_Kangju`	2.79
3	Arkhangai Xiongnu Early Medieval 1 (Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Arkhangai_XiongnuEarlyMedieval_1`	3.22
4	Sarmatian (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_Sarmatian`	3.28
5	Caspian steppe Sarmatian (Iron Age)`Caspian_steppe_Sarmatian`	3.34
6	Turk Kangju possibe (Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Turk_Kangju_possibe`	3.35
7	Taldysay MLBA2 (Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Taldysay_MLBA2`	3.42
8	Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Sarmatian_IA`Kazakhstan_Sarmatian_IA`	3.47
9	Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_Sarmatian`KAZ_Sarmatian`	3.50
10	Late Xiongnu Sarmatian (Iron Age)`Late_Xiongnu_Sarmatian`	3.56

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Pamiri Rushan`Pamiri_Rushan`	5.61
2	Tajik Rushan`Tajik_Rushan`	5.62
3	Pamiri Shugnan`Pamiri_Shugnan`	6.19
4	Tajik Shugnan`Tajik_Shugnan`	6.22
5	Tajik Yaghnobi`Tajik_Yaghnobi`	6.84
6	Tajik Yagnobi`Tajik_Yagnobi`	7.12
7	Pamiri Badakhshan`Pamiri_Badakhshan`	7.36
8	Pamiri Ishkashim`Pamiri_Ishkashim`	7.69
9	Tajik Tajikistan Kulob`Tajik_Tajikistan_Kulob`	7.71
10	Tajik Ishkashim`Tajik_Ishkashim`	7.75

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

E1b1b1b2a1 E-M123
R1a1a1b2a2 R-Z2124

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

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	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`DA10_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Kazakhstan_CentralSaka_o1.SG`	F	800-400 BCE	Sjartas		C4a1a
`DA17_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Kazakhstan_CentralSaka_o2.SG`	M	810-572 calBCE	Birlik	R1a1a1b2a2 R-Z2124	H10
`DA19_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Kazakhstan_CentralSaka_o2.SG`	M	810-542 calBCE	Karaterekh	E1b1b1b2a1 E-M123	U7a4