Ancient population · Bronze Age
Lchashen (Late Bronze Age)
Lchashen_LBA
Lchashen (Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Lchashen_LBA), with 2 samples from Gegharkunik, Armenia, dated to c. 1310–1250 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Lchashen Metsamor (Late Bronze Age, Armenia), Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age) and Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA; the nearest living populations are Azerbaijani Dagestan, Tat Azerbaijan and Tat Dagestan Dzhalgan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include HV0a and J1b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1310–1250 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Origin
- Gegharkunik, Armenia
- Sampled near
- Lchashen 40.52, 44.93
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
- Catalogue
Lchashen_LBA
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 | Lchashen Metsamor (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_LBA_LchashenMetsamor | 0.54 |
| 2 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)Armenia_LBA_EIA | 2.47 |
| 3 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBAArmenia_LBA | 2.58 |
| 4 | Armenia (Late Iron Age)Armenia_LIA | 2.80 |
| 5 | Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBAArmenia_MBA | 2.88 |
| 6 | Beniamin (Iron Age, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_IA | 2.94 |
| 7 | Armenia (Early Iron Age)Armenia_EIA | 3.03 |
| 8 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Lchashen_LBA | 3.04 |
| 9 | Bover Urartian (Iron Age)Bover_Urartian | 3.17 |
| 10 | Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_LBA | 3.22 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azerbaijani DagestanAzerbaijani_Dagestan | 3.09 |
| 2 | Tat AzerbaijanTat_Azerbaijan | 3.13 |
| 3 | Tat Dagestan DzhalganTat_Dagestan_Dzhalgan | 3.20 |
| 4 | Azeri DagestanAzeri_Dagestan | 3.36 |
| 5 | Georgian KhevsGeorgian_Khevs | 3.48 |
| 6 | Azerbaijani Republic ShakiAzerbaijani_Republic_Shaki | 3.52 |
| 7 | Azerbaijani Republic GabalaAzerbaijani_Republic_Gabala | 3.57 |
| 8 | Andian AAndian_A | 3.73 |
| 9 | KumykKumyk | 3.80 |
| 10 | Georgian TushGeorgian_Tush | 3.82 |
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.