Ancient population · Chalcolithic
Levant (Chalcolithic, Israel)
Levant_ISR_C
Levant (Chalcolithic, Israel) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_ISR_C), with 4 samples from Northern District, Israel, dated to about 4000 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Israel (Chalcolithic), Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) and Levant PPNC (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Saudi Mecca and Yemenite Ma'rib.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup T1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a, N1b, R0a and T2.
- Period
- Chalcolithic
- Date
- about 4000 BCE
- Country
- Israel
- Origin
- Northern District, Israel
- Sampled near
- Peki'in 32.97, 35.33
- Samples
- 4
- Published in
- HarneyReichNatComm2018
AkbariReichNature2026 - Catalogue
Levant_ISR_C
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 | Israel (Chalcolithic)Israel_C | 2.13 |
| 2 | Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Jordan_PPNB | 4.56 |
| 3 | Levant PPNC (Neolithic)Levant_PPNC | 4.93 |
| 4 | Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Levant_PPNB | 5.50 |
| 5 | PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan)Jordan_PPNC | 5.52 |
| 6 | Israel (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Israel_PPNB | 5.82 |
| 7 | Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan)Jordan_Late_PPNB | 6.55 |
| 8 | Jordan (Early Bronze Age)Jordan_EBA | 6.58 |
| 9 | IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)Israel_IBA | 6.82 |
| 10 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 7.03 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SamaritanSamaritan | 8.57 |
| 2 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 8.85 |
| 3 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 9.07 |
| 4 | Yemenite JewYemenite_Jew | 9.22 |
| 5 | Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf | 9.26 |
| 6 | Saudi ASaudiA | 9.41 |
| 7 | Egyptian CoptEgyptian_Copt | 9.46 |
| 8 | Yemenite MahraYemenite_Mahra | 9.47 |
| 9 | Saudi NajdSaudi_Najd | 9.50 |
| 10 | Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar | 9.58 |
Haplogroups
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.