Ancient population · Iron Age
IA2 (Iron Age, Lebanon)
Lebanon_IA2
IA2 (Iron Age, Lebanon) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Lebanon_IA2), with 2 samples from Lebanon, dated to c. 750 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age), Jordan (Late Bronze Age) and Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Lebanese Christian and Palestinian Beit Sahour.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 750 BCE
- Country
- Lebanon
- Sampled near
- Beirut 33.90, 35.51
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- HaberTyler-SmithAJHG2020
- Catalogue
Lebanon_IA2.SGvariant
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 | Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAII | 1.26 |
| 2 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age)Jordan_LBA | 2.48 |
| 3 | Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA | 2.70 |
| 4 | Levant Baqah (Bronze Age)Levant_Baqah_BA | 2.77 |
| 5 | Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA | 2.88 |
| 6 | Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA | 2.93 |
| 7 | IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_IA3 | 3.03 |
| 8 | ERoman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_ERoman | 3.24 |
| 9 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age)Jordan_LBA_IA | 3.25 |
| 10 | Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII | 3.30 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SamaritanSamaritan | 3.32 |
| 2 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 3.90 |
| 3 | Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour | 3.92 |
| 4 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 4.04 |
| 5 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 4.14 |
| 6 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 4.20 |
| 7 | DruzeDruze | 5.02 |
| 8 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 5.18 |
| 9 | Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt | 5.47 |
| 10 | AlawiteAlawite | 5.56 |
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SFI-55_noUDG.SG | M | 1000-500 BCE | Beirut | J1a2b1 |
SFI-56_noUDG.SG | F | 1000-500 BCE | Beirut |