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Levant Beirut ERoman (Antiquity)

Levant_Beirut_ERoman

Levant Beirut ERoman (Antiquity) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Beirut_ERoman), with 4 samples from Beirut, Lebanon, dated to c. 80 BCE – 150 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to ERoman (Antiquity, Lebanon), Levant Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon) and Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon); the nearest living populations are Palestinian Beit Sahour, Lebanese Christian and Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a (2).

Period
Antiquity
Date
c. 80 BCE – 150 CE
Country
Lebanon
Origin
Beirut, Lebanon
Sampled near
Beirut 33.90, 35.51
Samples
4
Catalogue
Levant_Beirut_ERoman

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
1ERoman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_ERoman1.33
2Levant Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Levant_LBN_Roman2.09
3Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_Roman2.28
4Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA2.36
5Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Levant_Megiddo_MLBA2.38
6Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA2.42
7Jordan (Late Bronze Age)Jordan_LBA2.71
8IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_IA32.73
9Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII2.74
10Levant (Medieval, Lebanon)Levant_LBN_MA2.75
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour2.38
2Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian2.81
3Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura2.81
4Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta3.02
5Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh3.21
6Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze3.58
7DruzeDruze3.60
8SamaritanSamaritan3.66
9Syrian HamaSyrian_Hama3.81
10Lebanese Shia Muslim BeirutLebanese_Shia_Muslim_Beirut3.85

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

Individuals 4

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNA
SFI-11M151 calBCE - 62 calCEBeirutG2a2b2a
SFI-15M170 calBCE - 17 calCEBeirutG2a2b1a2a
SFI-24F52 calBCE - 107 calCEBeirut
SFI-33F31-235 calCEBeirut