Ancient population · Bronze Age

Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)

Name: Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age) (Levant_Megiddo_MLBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Levant_Megiddo_MLBA

Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Megiddo_MLBA), with 5 samples from Northern District, Israel, dated to c. 1720 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age), Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age) and Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Lebanese Christian and Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is U2d.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1720 BCE
Country: Israel
Origin: Northern District, Israel
Sampled near: Tel Megiddo 32.58, 35.19
Samples: 5
Published in: Agranat-TamirReichCell2020
Catalogue: Levant_Megiddo_MLBA
Levant_Megiddo_MLBA_o1 outliers

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	Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)`Levant_Sidon_MBA`	1.65
2	Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Israel_MLBA`	1.70
3	Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)`Lebanon_MBA`	1.75
4	Jordan (Late Bronze Age)`Jordan_LBA`	1.86
5	Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)`Syria_Ebla_EMBA`	2.10
6	Levant Beirut ERoman (Antiquity)`Levant_Beirut_ERoman`	2.38
7	Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age, Israel)`Israel_Ashkelon_IA2`	2.42
8	ERoman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Lebanon_ERoman`	2.48
9	Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Lebanon_Roman`	2.58
10	Levant Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age)`Levant_Ashkelon_LBA`	2.65

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Samaritan`Samaritan`	2.96
2	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	3.31
3	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	3.31
4	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	3.35
5	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	3.39
6	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	3.45
7	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	4.31
8	Druze`Druze`	4.33
9	Karaite Iraq`Karaite_Iraq`	4.63
10	Iraqi Jew`Iraqi_Jew`	4.66

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z1853

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 6

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	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I8188`	`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA`	M	1800-1650 BCE	Tel Megiddo	J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z1853	U2d
`S10768`	`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA`			Northern District, Israel
`S10769`	`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA`			Northern District, Israel
`S10770`	`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA`			Northern District, Israel
`S10771`	`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA`			Northern District, Israel
`I2189` outlier	`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA_o1`	M	1600-1500 BCE	Tel Megiddo	R1a1a1 R-M417	U3b