Ancient population · Bronze Age

Aktogai (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)

Kazakhstan_MLBA_Aktogai

Aktogai (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_MLBA_Aktogai), with 5 samples from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 1620–1550 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sintashta (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia), Srubnaya Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age) and Krasnoyarsk (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Czech Modern, Swedish and Norwegian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a (4); its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c, N1a, T1a and U4a.

Date
c. 1620–1550 BCE
Country
Kazakhstan
Sampled near
Aktogai 46.97, 80.03
Samples
5
Catalogue
Kazakhstan_MLBA_Aktogai

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
1Sintashta (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MLBA_Sintashta1.17
2Srubnaya Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Srubnaya_Alakul_MLBA1.22
3Krasnoyarsk (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MLBA_Krasnoyarsk1.36
4Kairan (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_MLBA_Kairan1.47
5Srubnaya (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Srubnaya1.52
6Maitan Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Maitan_MLBA_Alakul1.59
7Srubnaya Alakul (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Srubnaya_Alakul1.64
8Corded Ware (Bronze Age)Corded_Ware1.82
9Yaroslavl Fatyanovo (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Yaroslavl_Fatyanovo_BA1.91
10Fatyanovo Moscow (Bronze Age)Fatyanovo_Moscow_BA1.93
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Czech ModernCzech_Modern5.20
2SwedishSwedish5.98
3NorwegianNorwegian6.25
4IcelandicIcelandic6.37
5FinnishFinnish6.49
6DanishDanish6.54
7Finnish CentralFinnish_Central6.58
8ShetlandicShetlandic6.58
9Finnish SoutheastFinnish_Southeast6.62
10IrishIrish6.69

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I10140M1750-1500 BCEAktogaiR1a1a1 R-FT361710U4a1
I4264F1731-1520 calBCEAktogaiT1a1
I4265M1621-1518 calBCEAktogaiR1a1a1b2a2a3 R-S23592N1a1a1a1
I4773M1613-1508 calBCEAktogaiR1a2b R-Y285394U5a1a2a
I4774M1612-1506 calBCEAktogaiR1a1a1b2a2a3 R-S23592J1c5a