Ancient population · Iron Age

Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)

Name: Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) (Kazakhstan_Saka_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Kazakhstan_Saka_IA

Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_Saka_IA), with 2 samples from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 790–400 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Uvs EIAXiongnu Late Medival (Iron Age, Mongolia), Tian Shan Hun (Medieval, Kyrgyzstan) and Mongolia 2 (Early Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Bashkir, Tatar Siberian and Tatar Crimean steppe.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is T2b.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 790–400 BCE
Country: Kazakhstan
Sampled near: Kaspan-6 44.49, 78.27
Samples: 2
Published in: Gnecchi-RusconeKrauseSciAdv2021
Catalogue: Kazakhstan_Saka_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.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Uvs EIAXiongnu Late Medival (Iron Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Uvs_EIAXiongnuLateMedival`	2.22
2	Tian Shan Hun (Medieval, Kyrgyzstan)`Kyrgyzstan_TianShan_Hun`	2.26
3	Mongolia 2 (Early Iron Age)`Mongolia_EIA_2`	2.29
4	Xinjiang Songshugou (Early Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA`	2.46
5	Xinjiang Junmachanyilian (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Junmachanyilian_IA`	2.52
6	Hun Tian Shan (Medieval)`Hun_Tian_Shan`	2.79
7	Center West 5 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_LBA_CenterWest_5`	2.88
8	Saka Tian Shan (Iron Age) · Saka_TianShan_IA`Saka_TianShan_IA`	2.96
9	Tasmola Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Tasmola_Saka_IA`	2.97
10	Scythian Urals (Iron Age, Russia)`Scythian_RUS_Urals`	3.01

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bashkir`Bashkir`	4.69
2	Tatar Siberian`Tatar_Siberian`	7.34
3	Tatar Crimean steppe`Tatar_Crimean_steppe`	7.80
4	Uzbek`Uzbek`	8.03
5	Tatar Lipka`Tatar_Lipka`	8.81
6	Udmurt`Udmurt`	9.02
7	Besermyan`Besermyan`	9.37
8	Turkmen Uzbekistan`Turkmen_Uzbekistan`	9.46
9	Nogai Dobruja`Nogai_Dobruja`	9.66
10	Turkmen`Turkmen`	9.75

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1a1a1b2a2a3b R-YP1456

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

T2b4e

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	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`CSP002`	F	807-773 calBCE	Kaspan-6		T2b4e
`CSP004`	M	600-200 BCE	Kaspan-6	R1a1a1b2a2a3b R-YP1456
`CSP003` outlier	M	1499 calBCE - 72 calCE	Kaspan-6	R1a1a1 R-M417	I1b