Ancient population · Neolithic
Marmara Mentese (Neolithic)
Marmara_Mentese_N
Marmara Mentese (Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Marmara_Mentese_N), with 3 samples from East Marmara, Turkey, dated to c. 6000–5920 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Turkey (Neolithic), Marmara Barcin (Neolithic) and Serbia (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Macedonia N and Romania N.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups G2a (2) and I2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a (2) and X2m.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 6000–5920 BCE
- Country
- Turkey
- Origin
- East Marmara, Turkey
- Sampled near
- Menteşe 40.26, 29.65
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Marmara_Mentese_N
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 | Turkey (Neolithic)Turkey_N | 2.26 |
| 2 | Marmara Barcin (Neolithic)Marmara_Barcin_N | 2.77 |
| 3 | Serbia (Neolithic)SRB_N | 2.89 |
| 4 | Greece (Neolithic)Greece_N | 3.14 |
| 5 | Saxony LBK (Neolithic, Germany)Germany_Saxony_LBK_N | 3.14 |
| 6 | Marmara Ilipinar (Neolithic)Marmara_Ilipinar_N | 3.21 |
| 7 | LBK (Early Neolithic, Czech)Czech_EN_LBK | 3.36 |
| 8 | LBK SMH (Neolithic)LBK_SMH | 3.38 |
| 9 | LBK HBS (Neolithic)LBK_HBS | 3.45 |
| 10 | Romania (Early Neolithic)Romania_EN | 3.45 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bulgaria NBulgaria_N | 3.09 |
| 2 | Macedonia NMacedonia_N | 3.36 |
| 3 | Romania NRomania_N | 3.72 |
| 4 | Croatia NCroatia_N | 4.97 |
| 5 | SardinianSardinian | 8.61 |
| 6 | Sardinia NSardinia_N | 10.09 |
| 7 | Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria | 12.36 |
| 8 | French CorsicaFrench_Corsica | 12.38 |
| 9 | Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani | 12.43 |
| 10 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 12.43 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
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.