Ancient population · Iron Age
Cimmerian (Iron Age, Moldova) · Moldova_Cimmerian
Moldova_Cimmerian
Cimmerian (Iron Age, Moldova) · Moldova_Cimmerian is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Moldova_Cimmerian), with 2 samples from Moldova, dated to c. 920–860 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Cimmerian (Iron Age, Moldova) · MDA_Cimmerian, Tagar (Iron Age, Russia) · Russia_Tagar and Saka (Iron Age, Kyrgyzstan); the nearest living populations are Besermyan, Tatar Kazan and Udmurt.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H9a and R.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 920–860 BCE
- Country
- Moldova
- Sampled near
- Hlinaia-Sad 47.02, 29.45
- Sites
- Hlinaia-Sad
Mokra - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- KrzewińskaGötherströmSciAdv2018
- Catalogue
Moldova_Cimmerian.SGvariant
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 | Cimmerian (Iron Age, Moldova) · MDA_CimmerianMDA_Cimmerian | 2.34 |
| 2 | Tagar (Iron Age, Russia) · Russia_TagarRussia_Tagar | 3.86 |
| 3 | Saka (Iron Age, Kyrgyzstan)Kyrgyzstan_Saka_IA | 3.97 |
| 4 | Xinjiang Tielieketesai 2 (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Tielieketesai_IA_2 | 4.02 |
| 5 | Xinjiang Qiafuqihaishuiku Scythians Wusun possible (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Qiafuqihaishuiku_IA_Scythians_Wusun_possible | 4.04 |
| 6 | Alpamsa Alakul (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Alpamsa_MLBA_Alakul | 4.04 |
| 7 | Nomad (Iron Age)Nomad_IA | 4.05 |
| 8 | Tagar (Iron Age, Russia) · RUS_TagarRUS_Tagar | 4.06 |
| 9 | Xinjiang Tangbalesayi Scythians Wusun possible (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Tangbalesayi_IA_Scythians_Wusun_possible | 4.07 |
| 10 | Tian Shan Saka (Iron Age, Kyrgyzstan)Kyrgyzstan_TianShan_Saka | 4.07 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BesermyanBesermyan | 5.50 |
| 2 | Tatar KazanTatar_Kazan | 6.20 |
| 3 | UdmurtUdmurt | 6.38 |
| 4 | Tatar LipkaTatar_Lipka | 6.80 |
| 5 | KomiKomi | 8.51 |
| 6 | Tatar Crimean steppeTatar_Crimean_steppe | 8.73 |
| 7 | Tatar MisharTatar_Mishar | 8.76 |
| 8 | Komi AKomi_A | 8.78 |
| 9 | SaamiSaami | 9.17 |
| 10 | ChuvashChuvash | 9.27 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.