Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer
Levant Natufian (Epipaleolithic)
Levant_Natufian_EpiP
Levant Natufian (Epipaleolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Natufian_EpiP), with 1 sample from Northern District, Israel, dated to c. 10750 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Natufian d (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel), Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan) and Natufian (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel); the nearest living populations are Yemenite Mahra, Sudan Arab Rashaayda and Saudi Jizan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b.
- Period
- Hunter-Gatherer
- Date
- c. 10750 BCE
- Country
- Israel
- Origin
- Northern District, Israel
- Sampled near
- Raqefet Cave 32.65, 35.07
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Levant_Natufian_EpiP
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 | Natufian d (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel)Israel_Natufian_d | 1.32 |
| 2 | Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan)Jordan_Late_PPNB | 7.61 |
| 3 | Natufian (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel)Israel_Natufian | 8.04 |
| 4 | Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Levant_PPNB | 9.30 |
| 5 | PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan)Jordan_PPNC | 9.36 |
| 6 | Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Jordan_PPNB | 10.88 |
| 7 | Israel (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Israel_PPNB | 11.02 |
| 8 | Tell Qarassa Umayyad (Medieval, Syria)Syria_TellQarassa_Umayyad | 11.09 |
| 9 | Levant PPNC (Neolithic)Levant_PPNC | 11.30 |
| 10 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 12.21 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yemenite MahraYemenite_Mahra | 11.80 |
| 2 | Sudan Arab RashaaydaSudan_Arab_Rashaayda | 12.12 |
| 3 | Saudi JizanSaudi_Jizan | 12.20 |
| 4 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 12.49 |
| 5 | Bedouin BBedouinB | 12.52 |
| 6 | Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf | 12.53 |
| 7 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 12.68 |
| 8 | Tunisian RbayaTunisian_Rbaya | 12.82 |
| 9 | Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar | 12.84 |
| 10 | Yemenite Al BaydaYemenite_Al_Bayda | 13.04 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I1072 | M | 12000-9500 BCE | Raqefet Cave | E1b1b1b2a E-PF1962 |