Ancient population · Bronze Age

Maykop Late (Bronze Age)

Name: Maykop Late (Bronze Age) (Maykop_Late)
Creator: Genoplot

Maykop_Late

Maykop Late (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Maykop_Late), with 4 samples from Stavropol Krai, Russia, dated to about 3224 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia), Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia) and Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Georgian West, Georgian Ajar and Georgian Kakh.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup L (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a and U4c.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: about 3224 BCE
Country: Russia
Origin: Stavropol Krai, Russia
Sampled near: Sinyukha 44.67, 41.11
Sites: Sinyukha (2)
Maryinskaya-5
Samples: 4
Published in: WangHaakNatComm2019
AkbariReichNature2026
Catalogue: Maykop_Late

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	Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Caucasus_LateMaikop`	1.52
2	Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia)`Russia_Caucasus_Maikop_Novosvobodnaya`	2.52
3	Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Berkaber`	2.52
4	Kura-Araxes Kaps`Kura-Araxes_Kaps`	2.58
5	Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan`	2.89
6	Kura-Araxes Berkaber (Bronze Age)`Kura-Araxes_Berkaber`	3.07
7	Kura Araxes Kaps (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kaps`	3.09
8	Kura Araxes Talin (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Talin`	3.48
9	Kura Araxes Karnut (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Karnut`	3.58
10	Kura-Araxes Velikent`Kura-Araxes_Velikent`	3.63

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian West`Georgian_West`	2.45
2	Georgian Ajar`Georgian_Ajar`	2.55
3	Georgian Kakh`Georgian_Kakh`	2.60
4	Abkhasian Gudauta`Abkhasian_Gudauta`	2.65
5	Georgian Lechkhumi`Georgian_Lechkhumi`	2.69
6	Georgian Imer`Georgian_Imer`	2.72
7	Georgian Megr`Georgian_Megr`	2.81
8	Georgian Ratcha`Georgian_Ratcha`	2.87
9	Abkhasian`Abkhasian`	3.02
10	Georgian Svaneti`Georgian_Svaneti`	3.08

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

L L-L595 2

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

K1a4
U4c1

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`MK5001`	M	3400-3000 BCE	Maryinskaya-5	L L-L595	K1a4
`SIJ001`			Stavropol Krai, Russia
`SIJ002`	M	3349-3100 calBCE	Sinyukha	L L-L595	U4c1
`SIJ003`	F	3350-3100 calBCE	Sinyukha