Ancient population · Neolithic
Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)
Levant_PPNB
Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_PPNB), with 4 samples from Ma'an, Jordan, dated to about 6857 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B), PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan) and Levant PPNC (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Egyptian Copt, Saudi Mecca and Yemenite Ma'rib.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b and H; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a, N1b, T and T1a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- about 6857 BCE
- Country
- Jordan
- Origin
- Ma'an, Jordan
- Sampled near
- 'Ain Ghazal 31.59, 35.85
- Sites
- 'Ain Ghazal (3)
Ba’ja - Samples
- 4
- Catalogue
Levant_PPNBLevant_PPNB_contamvariant
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 | Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Jordan_PPNB | 2.59 |
| 2 | PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan)Jordan_PPNC | 3.56 |
| 3 | Levant PPNC (Neolithic)Levant_PPNC | 3.79 |
| 4 | Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan)Jordan_Late_PPNB | 3.86 |
| 5 | Israel (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)Israel_PPNB | 4.25 |
| 6 | Israel (Chalcolithic)Israel_C | 5.37 |
| 7 | Levant (Chalcolithic, Israel)Levant_ISR_C | 5.50 |
| 8 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 7.11 |
| 9 | Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian | 8.59 |
| 10 | Natufian d (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel)Israel_Natufian_d | 8.84 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egyptian CoptEgyptian_Copt | 9.19 |
| 2 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 9.43 |
| 3 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 9.77 |
| 4 | Saudi JizanSaudi_Jizan | 9.80 |
| 5 | Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf | 9.96 |
| 6 | Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar | 10.00 |
| 7 | Yemenite MahraYemenite_Mahra | 10.06 |
| 8 | Yemenite JewYemenite_Jew | 10.30 |
| 9 | Yemenite Al BaydaYemenite_Al_Bayda | 10.32 |
| 10 | Bedouin BBedouinB | 10.45 |
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.