Ancient population · Bronze Age

Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)

Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA

Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA), with 2 samples from Mongolia, dated to c. 3120–3050 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia), Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia) and Kalmykia Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Darginian, Akhvakh and Pamiri Rushan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1 and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include N1a and U5a.

Date
c. 3120–3050 BCE
Country
Mongolia
Origin
Mongolia
Sampled near
Shatar-Chuluu 46.31, 100.76
Samples
2
Catalogue
Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA

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
#PopulationDistance
1Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya1.87
2Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Afanasievo2.12
3Kalmykia Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Kalmykia_EBA_Yamnaya2.14
4Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia)Yamnaya_RUS_Kalmykia2.17
5Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Steppe_Catacomb2.25
6Yamnaya Karagash (Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Yamnaya_KAZ_Karagash2.25
7Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MBA_Poltavka2.48
8Afanasievo 1 (Bronze Age)Afanasievo_12.62
9Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_EBA_Yamnaya2.75
10North Caucasus (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_North_Caucasus2.76
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1DarginianDarginian12.19
2AkhvakhAkhvakh12.22
3Pamiri RushanPamiri_Rushan12.43
4Tajik RushanTajik_Rushan12.44
5Andian BAndian_B12.57
6AvarAvar12.63
7KaitagKaitag12.65
8KubachinianKubachinian12.75
9ErzyaErzya12.88
10Finnish CentralFinnish_Central12.91

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
SHT001M3350-2900 BCEShatar-ChuluuR1b1a1b1a R-L51N1a1a1a1
SHT002M3316-2916 calBCEShatar-ChuluuJ1 J-Y136727U5a1