Ancient population · Iron Age

Khentii Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)

Mongolia_Khentii_Xiongnu

Khentii Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mongolia_Khentii_Xiongnu), with 1 sample from Mongolia, dated to c. 130 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Amur River Xianbei (Iron Age), Kadalinka River (Neolithic, Russia) and Trans-Baikal (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Nanai, Negidal and Ulchi.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup C2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is F1b.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 130 BCE
Country
Mongolia
Origin
Mongolia
Sampled near
Jargalantyn-Khondii 47.81, 108.53
Samples
1
Catalogue
Mongolia_Khentii_Xiongnu

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
1Amur River Xianbei (Iron Age)Amur_River_Xianbei_IA3.13
2Kadalinka River (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_KadalinkaRiver_N3.26
3Trans-Baikal (Neolithic)Trans-Baikal_N3.38
4Kuenga River 2 (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_KuengaRiver_N_23.44
5Argun River (Mesolithic)Argun_River_Meso3.67
6Argun River M (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_ArgunRiver_M3.75
7Amur River (Early Neolithic)Amur_River_EN3.82
8AR (Early Neolithic, China)China_AR_EN3.85
9Late Xiongnu (Iron Age)Late_Xiongnu3.92
10Lena River (Early Neolithic)Lena_River_EN3.98
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NanaiNanai5.65
2NegidalNegidal6.44
3UlchiUlchi7.19
4OroqenOroqen7.91
5KhamneganKhamnegan8.82
6NivkhNivkh8.88
7BuryatBuryat10.78
8HezhenHezhen11.10
9DaurDaur11.55
10MongolMongol12.11

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
JAG001M197-53 calBCEJargalantyn-KhondiiC2a1a1b1 C-F1756F1b1f