Ancient population · Iron Age
Mongolia 3 (Early Iron Age)
Mongolia_EIA_3
Mongolia 3 (Early Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mongolia_EIA_3), with 1 sample from Mongolia, dated to c. 420 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Danube Tisza Middle Avar (Medieval, Hungary), Siberia Irkutsk (Early Bronze Age, Russia) and Korgantas (Iron Age, Kazakhstan); the nearest living populations are Khamnegan, Buryat and Tuvinian.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is W.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 420 BCE
- Country
- Mongolia
- Origin
- Mongolia
- Sampled near
- Ulaan-Uul-sum 50.70, 99.20
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- WangReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Mongolia_EIA_3
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 | Danube Tisza Middle Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_DanubeTisza_MAvar | 2.47 |
| 2 | Siberia Irkutsk (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Siberia_Irkutsk_EBA | 2.62 |
| 3 | Korgantas (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Korgantas_IA | 2.67 |
| 4 | Buryatia Xiongnu (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_Buryatia_Xiongnu | 2.90 |
| 5 | Danube Tisza Early Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_DanubeTisza_EAvar | 3.06 |
| 6 | Early Avar elite (Medieval)early_Avar_elite | 3.29 |
| 7 | Shamanka (Neolithic)Shamanka_N | 3.44 |
| 8 | Shamanka (Eneolithic, Russia)Russia_Shamanka_Eneolithic | 3.50 |
| 9 | Birlik Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Birlik_Tasmola_EIA | 3.57 |
| 10 | Danube Tisza MLAvar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_DanubeTisza_MLAvar | 3.65 |
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.