Ancient population · Bronze Age

Levant Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age)

Name: Levant Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age) (Levant_Ebla_EMBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Levant_Ebla_EMBA

Levant Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Ebla_EMBA), with 3 samples from Idlib, Syria, dated to c. 2050–1850 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey), Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age) and Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh, Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta and Lebanese Christian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups F and J1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is J1b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2050–1850 BCE
Country: Syria
Origin: Idlib, Syria
Sampled near: Ebla / Tell Mardikh 35.80, 36.80
Samples: 3
Published in: SkourtaniotiKrauseCell2020
Catalogue: Levant_Ebla_EMBA

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	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	3.41
2	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Alalakh_MLBA`	3.54
3	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	3.55
4	Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician`	3.63
5	SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age)`SE_Kilis_MBA`	3.65
6	Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)`Syria_Ebla_EMBA`	3.67
7	IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_IA3`	3.73
8	Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)`Turkey_MBA`	3.80
9	Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAIII`	3.88
10	Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA`	3.90

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	4.18
2	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	4.27
3	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	4.30
4	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	4.30
5	Samaritan`Samaritan`	4.36
6	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	4.67
7	Druze`Druze`	4.87
8	Karaite Iraq`Karaite_Iraq`	4.96
9	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	5.08
10	Karaite Egypt`Karaite_Egypt`	5.31

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

F F
J1a2a1a2d2b J-ZS2652

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

J1b1b1

Individuals 3

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. 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
`ETM001` outlier	M	1900-1800 BCE	Ebla / Tell Mardikh	J1a2a1a2d2b J-ZS2652
`ETM004` outlier	F	2000-1800 BCE	Ebla / Tell Mardikh
`ETM018` outlier	M	2137-1959 calBCE	Ebla / Tell Mardikh	F F	J1b1b1