Ancient population · Bronze Age

Khovsgol (Bronze Age)

Khovsgol_BA

Khovsgol (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Khovsgol_BA), with 10 samples from Khövsgöl, Mongolia, dated to c. 1440–930 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Khovsgol 6 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia), Center West 4 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia) and Ulgii 1 (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia); the nearest living populations are Mogush, Altaian Kizhi and Tuvinian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b (5); its mtDNA haplogroups include C4a (5), A (2), D4 and D4e.

Date
c. 1440–930 BCE
Country
Mongolia
Origin
Khövsgöl, Mongolia
Sampled near
Arbulag-2006-1 49.67, 99.75
Sites
Arbulag-2006-1
Arbulag-2006-2
Arbulag-2006-7
Arbulag-2007-10
Arbulag-2007-17
and 5 more
Samples
10
Catalogue
Khovsgol_BA
Khovsgol_BA_o1 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
#PopulationDistance
1Khovsgol 6 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_LBA_Khovsgol_60.72
2Center West 4 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_LBA_CenterWest_41.23
3Ulgii 1 (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_EBA_Ulgii_11.80
4Zavkhan (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Zavkhan_MLBA1.95
5Center West 4 (Late Bronze Age)Center_West_LBA_42.45
6Khovd Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khovd_Xiongnu2.62
7Mongolia 1 (Bronze Age)Mongolia_BA_12.77
8Mongolia (Bronze Age)MNG_BA3.03
9Xinjiang Songshugou Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China) · China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_BA_AfanasievoChina_Xinjiang_Songshugou_BA_Afanasievo3.17
10Munkhkhairkhan 3 (Middle Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_MBA_Munkhkhairkhan_33.45
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1MogushMogush5.21
2Altaian KizhiAltaian_Kizhi5.68
3TuvinianTuvinian5.72
4AltaianAltaian6.04
5Khakass KachinsKhakass_Kachins6.26
6Mongol XinjiangMongol_Xinjiang7.20
7KalmykKalmyk7.31
8MongolianMongolian7.47
9BuryatBuryat7.63
10MongolMongol8.48

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

5 men with a call

mtDNA

10 individuals with a call

Individuals 14

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
ARS001Khovsgol_BAM1048-816 calBCEArbulag-2006-1Q1b1a3a Q-BZ180D4
ARS002Khovsgol_BAF1261-932 calBCEArbulag-2006-2D4j5
ARS005Khovsgol_BAM1257-926 calBCEArbulag-2006-7Q1b1a3a Q-BZ181D4e1
ARS006Khovsgol_BAF1207-920 calBCEArbulag-2007-8C4a1a
ARS007Khovsgol_BAM1389-1054 calBCEArbulag-2007-9Q1b1a3a Q-BZ181A
ARS008Khovsgol_BAM1390-1055 calBCEArbulag-2007-10Q1b1a3a Q-BZ181C4a2c
ARS012Khovsgol_BAF1412-1126 calBCEArbulag-2007-17C4a2a1
ARS014Khovsgol_BAF1415-1127 calBCEArbulag-2007-22C4a2c1
ARS016Khovsgol_BAM1539-1291 calBCEArbulag-2007-24Q1b1a3a Q-BZ181A
ARS024Khovsgol_BAF1385-1057 calBCEArbulag-2009-55C4a1a1
ARS004 outlierKhovsgol_BAM1211-901 calBCEArbulag-2006-6Q1b1a3a Q-BZ180F2a
ARS009 outlierKhovsgol_BAF1200-700 BCEArbulag-2007-12D5a2a
ARS015 outlierKhovsgol_BAM1431-1128 calBCEArbulag-2007-23Q1a1a1 Q-F1626G3a
ARS017 outlierKhovsgol_BA_o1F1428-1130 calBCEArbulag-2007-25G2a