Ancient population · Iron Age

Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)

Name: Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age) (Levant_Beirut_IAIII)
Creator: Genoplot

Levant_Beirut_IAIII

Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Beirut_IAIII), with 8 samples from Beirut, Lebanon, dated to c. 460–420 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon), Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon) and Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon); the nearest living populations are Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura, Lebanese Christian and Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a (3), G2a and H.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 460–420 BCE
Country: Lebanon
Origin: Beirut, Lebanon
Sampled near: Beirut 33.90, 35.51
Samples: 8
Published in: HaberTyler-SmithAJHG2020
Catalogue: Levant_Beirut_IAIII

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	IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_IA3`	0.74
2	Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician`	1.49
3	Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician`	1.53
4	Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox`Lebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox`	1.59
5	Levant Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Levant_LBN_Roman`	1.70
6	Levant (Medieval, Lebanon)`Levant_LBN_MA`	1.72
7	Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Lebanon_Roman`	1.74
8	Lebanese Christian Maronite`Lebanese_Christian_Maronite`	1.76
9	Lebanon (Medieval)`Lebanon_Medieval`	1.80
10	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	2.30

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	1.59
2	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	1.64
3	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	1.82
4	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	1.87
5	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	2.52
6	Druze`Druze`	2.68
7	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	2.73
8	Samaritan`Samaritan`	2.75
9	Alawite`Alawite`	3.05
10	Karaite Egypt`Karaite_Egypt`	3.10

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

6 men with a call

Individuals 8

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-34`	M	550-300 BCE	Beirut	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2
`SFI-35`	M	550-300 BCE	Beirut	I2a1b1a2a2a
`SFI-36`	F	550-300 BCE	Beirut
`SFI-39`	M	550-300 BCE	Beirut	H
`SFI-42`	M	542-395 calBCE	Beirut	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2
`SFI-45`	M	550-300 BCE	Beirut	J1a2b2
`SFI-47`	M	550-300 BCE	Beirut	G2a2a1a2b
`SFI-50`	F	550-300 BCE	Beirut