Ancient population · Iron Age

IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)

Lebanon_IA3

IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Lebanon_IA3), with 8 samples from Lebanon, dated to c. 460–420 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a (3), G2a and H.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 460–420 BCE
Country
Lebanon
Sampled near
Beirut 33.90, 35.51
Samples
8
Catalogue
Lebanon_IA3.SG variant
Lebanon_IA3_o2.SG 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
1Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII0.74
2Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_Roman1.65
3Levant Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Levant_LBN_Roman1.77
4Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician1.90
5Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician1.94
6Lebanese Christian Greek OrthodoxLebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox2.01
7Levant (Medieval, Lebanon)Levant_LBN_MA2.13
8Lebanese Christian MaroniteLebanese_Christian_Maronite2.20
9Lebanon (Medieval)Lebanon_Medieval2.21
10Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)Syria_Ebla_EMBA2.30
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian2.07
2Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura2.07
3Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta2.22
4Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh2.26
5SamaritanSamaritan2.66
6Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour2.75
7DruzeDruze3.17
8Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze3.23
9AlawiteAlawite3.55
10Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt3.57

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

6 men with a call

Individuals 9

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-DNA
SFI-34_noUDG.SGLebanon_IA3.SGM550-300 BCEBeirutJ1a2a1a2d2b2b2
SFI-35_noUDG.SGLebanon_IA3.SGM550-300 BCEBeirutI2a1b1a2a2a
SFI-36_noUDG.SGLebanon_IA3.SGF550-300 BCEBeirut
SFI-39_noUDG.SGLebanon_IA3.SGM550-300 BCEBeirutH
SFI-42_noUDG.SGLebanon_IA3.SGM542-395 calBCEBeirutJ1a2a1a2d2b2b2
SFI-45_noUDG.SGLebanon_IA3.SGM550-300 BCEBeirutJ1a2b2
SFI-47_noUDG.SGLebanon_IA3.SGM550-300 BCEBeirutG2a2a1a2b
SFI-50_noUDG.SGLebanon_IA3.SGF550-300 BCEBeirut
SFI-44_noUDG.SG outlierLebanon_IA3_o2.SGM550-300 BCEBeirutJ1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b2a