Ancient population · Iron Age
Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)
Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian
Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian), with 2 samples from Beirut, Lebanon, dated to c. 540–420 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt), Hellenistic (Antiquity) and IBA (Bronze Age, Israel); the nearest living populations are Egyptian Copt, Yemenite Amran and Saudi Mecca.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 540–420 BCE
- Country
- Lebanon
- Origin
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Sampled near
- Beirut 33.90, 35.51
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- HaberTyler-SmithAJHG2020
- Catalogue
Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian
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 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 2.58 |
| 2 | Hellenistic (Antiquity)Hellenistic | 4.56 |
| 3 | IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)Israel_IBA | 4.74 |
| 4 | Jordan (Early Bronze Age)Jordan_EBA | 5.54 |
| 5 | Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA | 5.86 |
| 6 | Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA | 5.96 |
| 7 | Hellenistic (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_Hellenistic | 6.14 |
| 8 | Levant Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age)Levant_Ashkelon_IA2 | 6.35 |
| 9 | Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA | 6.37 |
| 10 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age)Jordan_LBA | 6.45 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egyptian CoptEgyptian_Copt | 2.57 |
| 2 | Yemenite AmranYemenite_Amran | 4.14 |
| 3 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 4.23 |
| 4 | Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar | 4.26 |
| 5 | Bedouin ABedouinA | 4.27 |
| 6 | Saudi BSaudiB | 4.71 |
| 7 | PalestinianPalestinian | 4.84 |
| 8 | Yemenite IbbYemenite_Ibb | 4.89 |
| 9 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 4.98 |
| 10 | Yemenite Al BaydaYemenite_Al_Bayda | 5.17 |
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-43 | F | 749-403 calBCE | Beirut | |
SFI-44 | M | 550-300 BCE | Beirut | J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4b2a |