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Levant Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age)

Name: Levant Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age) (Levant_Ashkelon_IA2)
Creator: Genoplot

Levant_Ashkelon_IA2

Levant Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Ashkelon_IA2), with 2 samples from Southern District, Israel, dated to c. 1150 BCE.

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

Its mtDNA haplogroup is JT.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 1150 BCE
Country: Israel
Origin: Southern District, Israel
Sampled near: Ashkelon 31.67, 34.57
Samples: 2
Published in: FeldmanKrauseSciAdv2019
Catalogue: Levant_Ashkelon_IA2

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`	2.77
2	Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)`Lebanon_MBA`	2.81
3	Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA`	2.86
4	Jordan (Late Bronze Age)`Jordan_LBA`	2.95
5	Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Israel_MLBA`	3.00
6	Hellenistic (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Lebanon_Hellenistic`	3.06
7	Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age, Israel)`Israel_Ashkelon_IA2`	3.07
8	Levant Beirut ERoman (Antiquity)`Levant_Beirut_ERoman`	3.08
9	ERoman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Lebanon_ERoman`	3.30
10	Levant Baqah (Bronze Age)`Levant_Baqah_BA`	3.46

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Samaritan`Samaritan`	3.75
2	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	4.14
3	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	4.20
4	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	4.31
5	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	4.34
6	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	4.43
7	Jordanian`Jordanian`	4.84
8	Karaite Iraq`Karaite_Iraq`	4.99
9	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	5.05
10	Druze`Druze`	5.10

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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	mtDNA
`ASH135`	F	1200-1100 BCE	Ashkelon	JT
`ASH8`			Southern District, Israel