Ancient population · Bronze Age
Afanasievo 2 (Chalcolithic, Mongolia)
Mongolia_Chalcolithic_Afanasievo_2
Afanasievo 2 (Chalcolithic, Mongolia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mongolia_Chalcolithic_Afanasievo_2), with 1 sample from Mongolia, dated to c. 2670 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Arkhangai Pre-Bronze (Chalcolithic, Mongolia), Central pre BA and Siberia Irkutsk (Early Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Khamnegan, Buryat and Mongol.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup C2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is G2a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2670 BCE
- Country
- Mongolia
- Origin
- Mongolia
- Sampled near
- Kurgak-govi 49.34, 88.71
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- WangReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Mongolia_Chalcolithic_Afanasievo_2
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 | Arkhangai Pre-Bronze (Chalcolithic, Mongolia)Mongolia_Arkhangai_PreBronze | 3.53 |
| 2 | Central pre BAcentral_preBA | 3.92 |
| 3 | Siberia Irkutsk (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Siberia_Irkutsk_EBA | 4.11 |
| 4 | Siberia Lena (Early Neolithic, Russia)Russia_Siberia_Lena_EN | 4.65 |
| 5 | Korgantas (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Korgantas_IA | 4.74 |
| 6 | Shamanka (Neolithic)Shamanka_N | 4.78 |
| 7 | Shamanka (Eneolithic, Russia)Russia_Shamanka_Eneolithic | 4.80 |
| 8 | Mongolia 3 (Early Iron Age)Mongolia_EIA_3 | 4.90 |
| 9 | Nomad Hun Sarmatian (Medieval, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Nomad_Hun_Sarmatian | 4.92 |
| 10 | Hun-Sarmatian (Medieval, Kazakhstan)KAZ_Hun-Sarmatian | 4.99 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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.