Ancient population · Neolithic

Levant PPNC (Neolithic)

Name: Levant PPNC (Neolithic) (Levant_PPNC)
Creator: Genoplot

Levant_PPNC

Levant PPNC (Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_PPNC), with 1 sample from Muhafazat al-Asima, Jordan, dated to about 6750 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B), Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) and PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan); the nearest living populations are Egyptian Copt, Saudi Mecca and Tunisian Jew.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is R0a.

Period: Neolithic
Date: about 6750 BCE
Country: Jordan
Origin: Muhafazat al-Asima, Jordan
Sampled near: 'Ain Ghazal 31.99, 35.98
Samples: 1
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Levant_PPNC

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	Jordan (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)`Jordan_PPNB`	3.58
2	Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)`Levant_PPNB`	3.79
3	PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan)`Jordan_PPNC`	4.03
4	Israel (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)`Israel_PPNB`	4.28
5	Levant (Chalcolithic, Israel)`Levant_ISR_C`	4.93
6	Israel (Chalcolithic)`Israel_C`	5.13
7	Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan)`Jordan_Late_PPNB`	5.76
8	Tell Kurdu (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey)`Turkey_TellKurdu_EC`	7.57
9	Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)`Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod`	8.19
10	Catalhoyuk Ceramic (Neolithic, Turkey)`Turkey_Catalhoyuk_N_Ceramic`	8.60

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Egyptian Copt`Egyptian_Copt`	10.24
2	Saudi Mecca`Saudi_Mecca`	10.92
3	Tunisian Jew`Tunisian_Jew`	11.14
4	Yemenite Ma'rib`Yemenite_Ma'rib`	11.16
5	Samaritan`Samaritan`	11.16
6	Libyan Jew`Libyan_Jew`	11.33
7	Saudi Jizan`Saudi_Jizan`	11.36
8	Yemenite Al Jawf`Yemenite_Al_Jawf`	11.37
9	Yemenite Dhamar`Yemenite_Dhamar`	11.39
10	Yemenite Jew`Yemenite_Jew`	11.52

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

R0a2

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	mtDNA
`I1708`	F	6800-6700 BCE	'Ain Ghazal	R0a2