Ancient population · Bronze Age
Levant Baqah (Bronze Age)
Levant_Baqah_BA
Levant Baqah (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Baqah_BA), with 1 sample from Muhafazat al-Asima, Jordan, dated to c. 1350 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Jordan (Late Bronze Age), ERoman (Antiquity, Lebanon) and Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Palestinian Beit Sahour, Samaritan and Lebanese Christian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is N1b.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1350 BCE
- Country
- Jordan
- Origin
- Muhafazat al-Asima, Jordan
- Sampled near
- Baq'ah 32.13, 35.56
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- Agranat-TamirReichCell2020
- Catalogue
Levant_Baqah_BA
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 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age)Jordan_LBA | 2.32 |
| 2 | ERoman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_ERoman | 2.69 |
| 3 | Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA | 2.76 |
| 4 | IA2 (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_IA2 | 2.77 |
| 5 | Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA | 2.78 |
| 6 | Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA | 2.79 |
| 7 | Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAII | 2.81 |
| 8 | Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Levant_Megiddo_MLBA | 2.85 |
| 9 | Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_Roman | 2.91 |
| 10 | Levant Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Levant_LBN_Roman | 3.02 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour | 3.50 |
| 2 | SamaritanSamaritan | 3.63 |
| 3 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 3.73 |
| 4 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 3.83 |
| 5 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 3.92 |
| 6 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 4.06 |
| 7 | DruzeDruze | 4.59 |
| 8 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 4.76 |
| 9 | AlawiteAlawite | 5.15 |
| 10 | Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt | 5.26 |
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 | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I6461 | M | 1450-1250 BCE | Baq'ah | J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331 | N1b1a |