Ancient population · Iron Age
Levant Ashkelon IA1 (Iron Age)
Levant_Ashkelon_IA1
Levant Ashkelon IA1 (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Ashkelon_IA1), with 1 sample from Southern District, Israel, dated to c. 1260 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Pompeii Roman (Antiquity, Italy), Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey) and Ashkelon IA1 (Iron Age, Israel); the nearest living populations are Bulgarian Jew, Romaniote Jew and Syrian Jew.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is I1.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 1260 BCE
- Country
- Israel
- Origin
- Southern District, Israel
- Sampled near
- Ashkelon 31.67, 34.57
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- FeldmanKrauseSciAdv2019
- Catalogue
Levant_Ashkelon_IA1
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 | Pompeii Roman (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Pompeii_Roman | 5.56 |
| 2 | Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Roman_5 | 5.60 |
| 3 | Ashkelon IA1 (Iron Age, Israel)Israel_Ashkelon_IA1 | 5.62 |
| 4 | Tuscany Grosseto Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Tuscany_Grosseto_Imperial | 5.70 |
| 5 | West Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_WestByzantine | 5.74 |
| 6 | Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Hellenistic | 5.78 |
| 7 | Roman 2 (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Roman_2 | 5.92 |
| 8 | Rome Imperial (Antiquity)Rome_Imperial | 5.92 |
| 9 | Turkey (Early Bronze Age)Turkey_EBA | 5.97 |
| 10 | Viminacium Roman elite 2 (Antiquity, Serbia)Serbia_Viminacium_Roman_elite_2 | 6.03 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bulgarian JewBulgarian_Jew | 5.21 |
| 2 | Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew | 5.57 |
| 3 | Syrian JewSyrian_Jew | 5.83 |
| 4 | Sephardic JewSephardic_Jew | 5.87 |
| 5 | CypriotCypriot | 5.94 |
| 6 | Turkish JewTurkish_Jew | 5.95 |
| 7 | Tunisian JewTunisian_Jew | 6.10 |
| 8 | Moroccan JewMoroccan_Jew | 6.20 |
| 9 | Karaite IraqKaraite_Iraq | 6.21 |
| 10 | Italian JewItalian_Jew | 6.23 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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 | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ASH2-3 | F | 1381-1133 calBCE | Ashkelon | I1 |