Ancient population · Bronze Age

Khovd (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)

Mongolia_Khovd_MLBA

Khovd (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mongolia_Khovd_MLBA), with 2 samples from Mongolia, dated to c. 1360–1220 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Sagly 4 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia), Uvs EIAXiongnu Late Medival (Iron Age, Mongolia) and Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan); the nearest living populations are Bashkir, Tatar Siberian and Nogai Dobruja.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups N and Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include G2b and T1a.

Date
c. 1360–1220 BCE
Country
Mongolia
Origin
Mongolia
Sampled near
Berkh-Mountain 47.06, 91.84
Sites
Berkh-Mountain
Shar-gov'-3
Samples
2
Catalogue
Mongolia_Khovd_MLBA

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
1Sagly 4 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_EIA_Sagly_42.53
2Uvs EIAXiongnu Late Medival (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Uvs_EIAXiongnuLateMedival2.65
3Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Tasmola_EIA2.65
4Saka Kazakh steppe (Iron Age)Saka_Kazakh_steppe2.93
5Tasmola (Iron Age)Tasmola_IA3.02
6Central Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Central_SakaKazakhstan_Central_Saka3.04
7Altai (Iron Age)Altai_IA3.14
8Xinjiang Songshugou (Early Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA3.16
9Berel (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Berel_IA3.20
10Xinjiang Junmachanyilian (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Junmachanyilian_IA3.28
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1BashkirBashkir4.51
2Tatar SiberianTatar_Siberian5.99
3Nogai DobrujaNogai_Dobruja9.04
4UzbekUzbek9.07
5Tatar Crimean steppeTatar_Crimean_steppe9.13
6Tatar Siberian ZabolotniyeTatar_Siberian_Zabolotniye9.33
7NogaiNogai9.54
8UdmurtUdmurt10.53
9Yukagir ForestYukagir_Forest10.63
10Hazara AfghanistanHazara_Afghanistan10.72

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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
BER002M1376-1120 calBCEBerkh-MountainN N-TATT1a1
SBG001M1442-1281 calBCEShar-gov'-3Q1b1a3 Q-L330G2b2