Ancient population · Iron Age

Nomad (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)

Name: Nomad (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) (Kazakhstan_Nomad_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Kazakhstan_Nomad_IA

Nomad (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_Nomad_IA), with 2 samples from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 380 BCE – 50 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Nomad (Iron Age), Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 1 (Medieval, Mongolia) and Tasmola Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan); the nearest living populations are Bashkir, Udmurt and Besermyan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1a and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1b and W3b.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 380 BCE – 50 CE
Country: Kazakhstan
Sampled near: Kenjekol' 47.67, 76.63
Sites: Kenjekol'
Kyzylasker
Samples: 2
Published in: DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
Catalogue: Kazakhstan_Nomad_IA.SG variant
Kazakhstan_Nomad_IA_o.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	Nomad (Iron Age)`Nomad_IA`	3.00
2	Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 1 (Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Khuvsgul_XiongnuLateMedieval_1`	3.25
3	Tasmola Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Tasmola_Saka_IA`	3.64
4	Alai Nura (Iron Age, Kyrgyzstan)`Kyrgyzstan_AlaiNura_IA`	3.66
5	Hun Tian Shan (Medieval)`Hun_Tian_Shan`	3.70
6	Saka (Iron Age, Kyrgyzstan)`Kyrgyzstan_Saka_IA`	3.84
7	Xinjiang G 218 Scythian Yuezhi Wusun possible (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_G218_IA_Scythian_Yuezhi_Wusun_possible`	3.85
8	Xinjiang Zeketai (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Zeketai_IA`	3.86
9	Xinjiang Wulanbuluke (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Wulanbuluke_IA`	3.87
10	Xinjiang Baiyanghe 1 (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Baiyanghe_IA_1`	3.96

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bashkir`Bashkir`	7.77
2	Udmurt`Udmurt`	7.95
3	Besermyan`Besermyan`	8.16
4	Tatar Lipka`Tatar_Lipka`	9.12
5	Turkmen Uzbekistan`Turkmen_Uzbekistan`	9.56
6	Tatar Crimean steppe`Tatar_Crimean_steppe`	9.59
7	Turkmen`Turkmen`	9.62
8	Uzbek`Uzbek`	9.79
9	Pamiri Sarikoli`Pamiri_Sarikoli`	9.90
10	Tatar Kazan`Tatar_Kazan`	10.22

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1a1a1b2a2a1c3a1 R-YP6547
R1b1a1a1b R-Y20748

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

J1b1a1
W3b

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
`DA129_noUDG.SG`	`Kazakhstan_Nomad_IA.SG`	M	539-208 calBCE	Kyzylasker	R1a1a1b2a2a1c3a1 R-YP6547	W3b
`DA92_noUDG.SG`	`Kazakhstan_Nomad_IA.SG`	M	51 calBCE - 204 calCE	Kenjekol'	R1b1a1a1b R-Y20748	J1b1a1
`DA18_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Kazakhstan_Nomad_IA_o.SG`	F	761-416 calBCE	Shiderty-2		U5b1c2