Ancient population · Bronze Age
Kura-Araxes Berkaber (Bronze Age)
Kura-Araxes_Berkaber
Kura-Araxes Berkaber (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kura-Araxes_Berkaber), with 2 samples from Tavush, Armenia, dated to c. 2390–2370 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia), Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia) and Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Georgian Kakh, Georgian Javakheti and Georgian Kart.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1 and J1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include N1b and U3b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2390–2370 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Origin
- Tavush, Armenia
- Sampled near
- Dzhoghaz 41.06, 45.14
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Kura-Araxes_Berkaber
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan | 2.19 |
| 2 | Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Berkaber | 2.34 |
| 3 | Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_LateMaikop | 2.99 |
| 4 | Maykop Late (Bronze Age)Maykop_Late | 3.07 |
| 5 | Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_Maikop_Novosvobodnaya | 3.13 |
| 6 | Kura Araxes Karnut (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Karnut | 3.23 |
| 7 | Kura Araxes Talin (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Talin | 3.36 |
| 8 | Kura-Araxes KapsKura-Araxes_Kaps | 3.40 |
| 9 | Kura Araxes Kaps (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kaps | 3.49 |
| 10 | Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Antiquity | 3.84 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgian KakhGeorgian_Kakh | 2.82 |
| 2 | Georgian JavakhetiGeorgian_Javakheti | 3.08 |
| 3 | Georgian KartGeorgian_Kart | 3.58 |
| 4 | Georgian SamtckheGeorgian_Samtckhe | 3.67 |
| 5 | Georgian AjarGeorgian_Ajar | 3.73 |
| 6 | Andian AAndian_A | 3.79 |
| 7 | Georgian LechkhumiGeorgian_Lechkhumi | 3.82 |
| 8 | Turkish AhiskaTurkish_Ahiska | 3.83 |
| 9 | Georgian ImerGeorgian_Imer | 3.97 |
| 10 | Georgian WestGeorgian_West | 4.03 |
Haplogroups
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.