Ancient population · Iron Age
Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)
Levant_Beirut_IAII
Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Beirut_IAII), with 2 samples from Beirut, Lebanon, dated to c. 750 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to IA2 (Iron Age, Lebanon), Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age) and Jordan (Late Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Lebanese Christian and Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 750 BCE
- Country
- Lebanon
- Origin
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Sampled near
- Beirut 33.90, 35.51
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- HaberTyler-SmithAJHG2020
- Catalogue
Levant_Beirut_IAII
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 | IA2 (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_IA2 | 1.26 |
| 2 | Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA | 2.18 |
| 3 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age)Jordan_LBA | 2.20 |
| 4 | Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA | 2.33 |
| 5 | Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA | 2.40 |
| 6 | IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_IA3 | 2.72 |
| 7 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age)Jordan_LBA_IA | 2.81 |
| 8 | Levant Baqah (Bronze Age)Levant_Baqah_BA | 2.81 |
| 9 | Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Levant_Megiddo_MLBA | 2.84 |
| 10 | ERoman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_ERoman | 2.86 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SamaritanSamaritan | 2.79 |
| 2 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 3.45 |
| 3 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 3.50 |
| 4 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 3.63 |
| 5 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 3.67 |
| 6 | Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour | 3.73 |
| 7 | DruzeDruze | 4.54 |
| 8 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 4.65 |
| 9 | Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt | 4.84 |
| 10 | Karaite IraqKaraite_Iraq | 4.86 |
Haplogroups
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 | Y-DNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SFI-55 | M | 1000-500 BCE | Beirut | J1a2b1 |
SFI-56 | F | 1000-500 BCE | Beirut |