Ancient population · Bronze Age
Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)
Levant_Sidon_MBA
Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Sidon_MBA), with 5 samples from South Governorate, Lebanon, dated to c. 1820–1700 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age), Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age) and Jordan (Late Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura and Lebanese Christian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a and J2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1bc, HV1b, K1a and N1a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1820–1700 BCE
- Country
- Lebanon
- Origin
- South Governorate, Lebanon
- Sampled near
- College Site 33.56, 35.37
- Samples
- 5
- Published in
- HaberTyler-SmithAJHG2017
- Catalogue
Levant_Sidon_MBA
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 | Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA | 0.67 |
| 2 | Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA | 1.31 |
| 3 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age)Jordan_LBA | 1.57 |
| 4 | Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Levant_Megiddo_MLBA | 1.65 |
| 5 | Jordan (Late Bronze Age–Iron Age)Jordan_LBA_IA | 2.20 |
| 6 | Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)Syria_Ebla_EMBA | 2.27 |
| 7 | Levant Beirut ERoman (Antiquity)Levant_Beirut_ERoman | 2.36 |
| 8 | IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_IA3 | 2.40 |
| 9 | Levant Beirut IAII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAII | 2.40 |
| 10 | Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age, Israel)Israel_Ashkelon_IA2 | 2.43 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SamaritanSamaritan | 2.16 |
| 2 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 3.04 |
| 3 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 3.20 |
| 4 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 3.20 |
| 5 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 3.26 |
| 6 | Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour | 3.39 |
| 7 | Karaite IraqKaraite_Iraq | 4.15 |
| 8 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 4.15 |
| 9 | DruzeDruze | 4.25 |
| 10 | Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt | 4.34 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 5
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.