Ancient population · Iron Age

Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)

Name: Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon) (Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician)
Creator: Genoplot

Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician

Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician), with 2 samples from Lebanon, dated to c. 510 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age), Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon) and Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox; the nearest living populations are Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura, Lebanese Christian and Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 510 CE
Country: Lebanon
Sampled near: Chhim 33.62, 35.50
Samples: 2
Published in: AntonioPritchardeLife2024
Catalogue: Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician.SG variant

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	Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAIII`	1.49
2	Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician`	1.50
3	Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox`Lebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox`	1.67
4	Lebanese Christian Maronite`Lebanese_Christian_Maronite`	1.83
5	IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_IA3`	1.90
6	Levant (Medieval, Lebanon)`Levant_LBN_MA`	1.93
7	Lebanon (Medieval)`Lebanon_Medieval`	1.95
8	Levant Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Levant_LBN_Roman`	2.11
9	Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Lebanon_Roman`	2.25
10	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	2.41

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	1.64
2	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	1.78
3	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	1.83
4	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	1.87
5	Druze`Druze`	2.38
6	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	2.52
7	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	2.82
8	Karaite Egypt`Karaite_Egypt`	2.86
9	Alawite`Alawite`	2.91
10	Samaritan`Samaritan`	2.91

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b R-M269

Individuals 4

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
`R3476.SG`	M	436-568 calCE	Chhim	R1b1a1b R-M269
`R3477.SG`
`R3473.SG` outlier	F	650-759 calCE	Chhim
`R9823.SG` outlier