Ancient population · Iron Age

Khuvsgul Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)

Mongolia_Khuvsgul_Xiongnu

Khuvsgul Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mongolia_Khuvsgul_Xiongnu), with 1 sample from Mongolia, dated to c. 110 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Center West 5 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia), Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 1 (Medieval, Mongolia) and Mongolia 2 (Early Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Bashkir, Tatar Siberian and Uzbek.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is I1a.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 110 BCE
Country
Mongolia
Origin
Mongolia
Sampled near
Atsyn-Gol 49.27, 101.50
Samples
1
Catalogue
Mongolia_Khuvsgul_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
1Center West 5 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_LBA_CenterWest_53.86
2Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 1 (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khuvsgul_XiongnuLateMedieval_13.99
3Mongolia 2 (Early Iron Age)Mongolia_EIA_24.24
4Xinjiang Songshugou (Early Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA4.32
5Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Saka_IA4.69
6Uvs EIAXiongnu Late Medival (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Uvs_EIAXiongnuLateMedival4.73
7Xinjiang Baiyanghe 1 (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Baiyanghe_IA_14.83
8Xinjiang Chaganguole (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Chaganguole_IA4.88
9Xinjiang Junmachanyilian (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Junmachanyilian_IA4.90
10Tian Shan Hun (Medieval, Kyrgyzstan)Kyrgyzstan_TianShan_Hun4.93
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1BashkirBashkir6.67
2Tatar SiberianTatar_Siberian8.35
3UzbekUzbek8.38
4Tatar Crimean steppeTatar_Crimean_steppe10.20
5Nogai DobrujaNogai_Dobruja10.37
6Turkmen UzbekistanTurkmen_Uzbekistan10.42
7Hazara AfghanistanHazara_Afghanistan10.58
8Tatar LipkaTatar_Lipka10.71
9TurkmenTurkmen10.79
10NogaiNogai10.79

Haplogroups

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
AST001F164-51 calBCEAtsyn-GolI1a