Ancient population · Bronze Age

Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)

Name: Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age) (Lebanon_MBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Lebanon_MBA

Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Lebanon_MBA), with 5 samples from Lebanon, dated to c. 1820–1700 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age), Jordan (Late Bronze Age) and Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura and Lebanese Christian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a and J2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1bc, HV1b, K1a and N1a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1820–1700 BCE
Country: Lebanon
Sampled near: College Site 33.56, 35.37
Samples: 5
Published in: HaberTyler-SmithAJHG2017
Catalogue: Lebanon_MBA.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 Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)`Levant_Sidon_MBA`	0.67
2	Jordan (Late Bronze Age)`Jordan_LBA`	1.32
3	Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Israel_MLBA`	1.40
4	Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA`	1.75
5	Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAII`	2.18
6	Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age)`Jordan_LBA_IA`	2.27
7	Levant Beirut ERoman (Antiquity)`Levant_Beirut_ERoman`	2.42
8	Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age, Israel)`Israel_Ashkelon_IA2`	2.49
9	Levant Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age)`Levant_Ashkelon_LBA`	2.55
10	ERoman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Lebanon_ERoman`	2.58

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Samaritan`Samaritan`	2.34
2	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	3.40
3	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	3.48
4	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	3.55
5	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	3.62
6	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	3.64
7	Karaite Iraq`Karaite_Iraq`	4.48
8	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	4.55
9	Druze`Druze`	4.60
10	Jordanian`Jordanian`	4.70

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331
J2b1 J-M205

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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	mtDNA
`ERS1790729_noUDG.SG`	F	1900-1700 BCE	College Site		H1bc
`ERS1790730_noUDG.SG`	F	1800-1600 BCE	College Site		K1a2
`ERS1790731_noUDG.SG`	F	1900-1700 BCE	College Site		R2
`ERS1790732_noUDG.SG`	M	1800-1600 BCE	College Site	J2b1 J-M205	HV1b1
`ERS1790733_noUDG.SG`	M	1950-1692 calBCE	College Site	J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331	N1a3a