Ancient population · Iron Age
Korgantas (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)
Kazakhstan_Korgantas_IA
Korgantas (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_Korgantas_IA), with 1 sample from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 350 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Buryatia Xiongnu (Iron Age, Russia), Danube Tisza Middle Avar (Medieval, Hungary) and Mongolia 3 (Early Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Khamnegan, Buryat and Tuvinian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is G2a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 350 BCE
- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Sampled near
- Karaoba 51.14, 78.16
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- Gnecchi-RusconeKrauseSciAdv2021
- Catalogue
Kazakhstan_Korgantas_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 | Buryatia Xiongnu (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_Buryatia_Xiongnu | 2.29 |
| 2 | Danube Tisza Middle Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_DanubeTisza_MAvar | 2.51 |
| 3 | Mongolia 3 (Early Iron Age)Mongolia_EIA_3 | 2.67 |
| 4 | Danube Tisza MLAvar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_DanubeTisza_MLAvar | 2.74 |
| 5 | Early Avar elite (Medieval)early_Avar_elite | 2.74 |
| 6 | Xinjiang Tuwaxingcun Pazyryk possible (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Tuwaxingcun_IA_Pazyryk_possible | 2.85 |
| 7 | Hun-Sarmatian (Medieval, Kazakhstan)KAZ_Hun-Sarmatian | 3.00 |
| 8 | Nomad Hun Sarmatian (Medieval, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Nomad_Hun_Sarmatian | 3.02 |
| 9 | Danube Tisza Early Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_DanubeTisza_EAvar | 3.06 |
| 10 | Middle Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_MiddleAvar | 3.20 |
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.