Ancient population · Bronze Age
Mereke (Middle Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)
Kazakhstan_Mereke_MBA
Mereke (Middle Bronze Age, Kazakhstan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_Mereke_MBA), with 2 samples from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 2380–2100 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kumsay (Early Bronze Age, Kazakhstan), Steppe Maikop (Chalcolithic, Russia) and Xinjiang Songshugou (Bronze Age, China); the nearest living populations are Udmurt, Besermyan and Pamiri Shugnan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup N (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include I1b and U5a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2380–2100 BCE
- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Sampled near
- Mereke-Taskala 50.77, 49.34
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- NarasimhanReichScience2019
- Catalogue
Kazakhstan_Mereke_MBAKazakhstan_Mereke_MBA_o2outliers
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 | Kumsay (Early Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Kumsay_EBA | 2.09 |
| 2 | Steppe Maikop (Chalcolithic, Russia)Russia_Steppe_Maikop | 2.20 |
| 3 | Xinjiang Songshugou (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_BA | 4.61 |
| 4 | Chemurchek 2 (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_EBA_Chemurchek_2 | 4.89 |
| 5 | Xinjiang G 218 Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_G218_BA_Afanasievo | 5.26 |
| 6 | Xinjiang Chaganguole Chemurcheck (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Chaganguole_BA_Chemurcheck | 5.47 |
| 7 | Dali (Early Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Dali_EBA | 5.48 |
| 8 | Xinjiang Nileke Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Nileke_Afanasievo_BA | 5.50 |
| 9 | Xinjiang Songshugou Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China) · China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_Afanasievo_BAChina_Xinjiang_Songshugou_Afanasievo_BA | 5.67 |
| 10 | Steppe Lola (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Steppe_Lola | 5.80 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | UdmurtUdmurt | 15.32 |
| 2 | BesermyanBesermyan | 15.93 |
| 3 | Pamiri ShugnanPamiri_Shugnan | 16.91 |
| 4 | Tajik ShugnanTajik_Shugnan | 16.93 |
| 5 | Pamiri WakhiPamiri_Wakhi | 17.05 |
| 6 | Pamiri SarikoliPamiri_Sarikoli | 17.08 |
| 7 | Tajik RushanTajik_Rushan | 17.11 |
| 8 | Pamiri RushanPamiri_Rushan | 17.15 |
| 9 | Pamiri IshkashimPamiri_Ishkashim | 17.16 |
| 10 | Pamiri BadakhshanPamiri_Badakhshan | 17.20 |
Haplogroups
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.