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
- Published in
- JeongWarinnerCell2020
- 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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amur River Xianbei (Iron Age)Amur_River_Xianbei_IA | 3.13 |
| 2 | Kadalinka River (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_KadalinkaRiver_N | 3.26 |
| 3 | Trans-Baikal (Neolithic)Trans-Baikal_N | 3.38 |
| 4 | Kuenga River 2 (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_KuengaRiver_N_2 | 3.44 |
| 5 | Argun River (Mesolithic)Argun_River_Meso | 3.67 |
| 6 | Argun River M (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_ArgunRiver_M | 3.75 |
| 7 | Amur River (Early Neolithic)Amur_River_EN | 3.82 |
| 8 | AR (Early Neolithic, China)China_AR_EN | 3.85 |
| 9 | Late Xiongnu (Iron Age)Late_Xiongnu | 3.92 |
| 10 | Lena River (Early Neolithic)Lena_River_EN | 3.98 |
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.