Ancient population · Iron Age

Tasmola Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)

Name: Tasmola Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) (Kazakhstan_Tasmola_Saka_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Kazakhstan_Tasmola_Saka_IA

Tasmola Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_Tasmola_Saka_IA), with 2 samples from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 660–630 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Hun Tian Shan (Medieval), Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 1 (Medieval, Mongolia) and Xinjiang Wulanbuluke (Iron Age, China); the nearest living populations are Bashkir, Tatar Crimean steppe and Udmurt.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include A and J1b.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 660–630 BCE
Country: Kazakhstan
Sampled near: Eleke-Sazy-2 49.52, 77.82
Samples: 2
Published in: Gnecchi-RusconeKrauseSciAdv2021
Catalogue: Kazakhstan_Tasmola_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	Hun Tian Shan (Medieval)`Hun_Tian_Shan`	2.11
2	Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 1 (Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Khuvsgul_XiongnuLateMedieval_1`	2.34
3	Xinjiang Wulanbuluke (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Wulanbuluke_IA`	2.65
4	Tian Shan Hun (Medieval, Kyrgyzstan)`Kyrgyzstan_TianShan_Hun`	2.97
5	Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Saka_IA`	2.97
6	Xinjiang G 218 Scythian Yuezhi Wusun possible (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_G218_IA_Scythian_Yuezhi_Wusun_possible`	3.08
7	Center West 5 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_LBA_CenterWest_5`	3.11
8	Mongolia 2 (Early Iron Age)`Mongolia_EIA_2`	3.18
9	Alai Nura (Iron Age, Kyrgyzstan)`Kyrgyzstan_AlaiNura_IA`	3.27
10	Xinjiang Keqikesubutai Historical (Antiquity, China)`China_Xinjiang_Keqikesubutai_Historical`	3.41

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bashkir`Bashkir`	6.58
2	Tatar Crimean steppe`Tatar_Crimean_steppe`	8.02
3	Udmurt`Udmurt`	8.32
4	Tatar Lipka`Tatar_Lipka`	8.42
5	Besermyan`Besermyan`	8.48
6	Uzbek`Uzbek`	8.87
7	Turkmen Uzbekistan`Turkmen_Uzbekistan`	9.32
8	Turkmen`Turkmen`	9.42
9	Tatar Siberian`Tatar_Siberian`	9.43
10	Tatar Kazan`Tatar_Kazan`	10.06

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1a1a1b2a2a3b R-YP1548

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

A
J1b1a1e

Individuals 2

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`ESZ001`	M	789-546 calBCE	Eleke-Sazy-2	R1a1a1b2a2a3b R-YP1548	J1b1a1e
`ESZ002`	F	770-483 calBCE	Eleke-Sazy-2		A