Ancient population · Iron Age
Xianbei (Iron Age, Mongolia)
Mongolia_IA_Xianbei
Xianbei (Iron Age, Mongolia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mongolia_IA_Xianbei), with 1 sample from Mongolia, dated to c. 470 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Khentii (Late Medieval, Mongolia), Bulgan Early Medieval Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia) and Khuvsgul (Late Medieval, Mongolia); the nearest living populations are Buryat, Khamnegan and Mongol.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is D4b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 470 CE
- Country
- Mongolia
- Origin
- Mongolia
- Sampled near
- Uliastai-Dood-Denj 45.39, 90.80
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- WangReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Mongolia_IA_Xianbei
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 | Khentii (Late Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khentii_LateMedieval | 2.79 |
| 2 | Bulgan Early Medieval Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Bulgan_EarlyMedievalLateMedieval | 3.14 |
| 3 | Khuvsgul (Late Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khuvsgul_LateMedieval | 3.44 |
| 4 | Dornod (Late Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Dornod_LateMedieval | 3.46 |
| 5 | Nomad HP (Antiquity)Nomad_HP | 3.57 |
| 6 | Nomad HP (Antiquity, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Nomad_HP | 3.79 |
| 7 | Birlik Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Birlik_Tasmola_EIA | 3.88 |
| 8 | Kayalyk (Medieval, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Kayalyk_Medieval | 4.17 |
| 9 | Nomad Hun Sarmatian (Medieval, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Nomad_Hun_Sarmatian | 4.32 |
| 10 | Bulgan Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Bulgan_Xiongnu | 4.52 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BuryatBuryat | 4.78 |
| 2 | KhamneganKhamnegan | 4.84 |
| 3 | MongolMongol | 4.92 |
| 4 | KalmykKalmyk | 6.33 |
| 5 | MongolianMongolian | 6.78 |
| 6 | Mongol Inner MongoliaMongol_Inner_Mongolia | 7.59 |
| 7 | Mongol IMARMongol_IMAR | 7.63 |
| 8 | Mongol XinjiangMongol_Xinjiang | 7.74 |
| 9 | OroqenOroqen | 8.20 |
| 10 | TuvinianTuvinian | 8.33 |
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.