Ancient population · Iron Age

Tuv Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)

Mongolia_Tuv_Xiongnu

Tuv Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mongolia_Tuv_Xiongnu), with 2 samples from Mongolia, dated to c. 50 BCE – 70 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bulgan (Late Medieval, Mongolia), Sukhbaatar (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia) and Tuv (Late Medieval, Mongolia); the nearest living populations are Hezhen, Daur and Xibo.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup N1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include C4a and D4.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 50 BCE – 70 CE
Country
Mongolia
Origin
Mongolia
Sampled near
Atsyn-Am 48.33, 106.25
Sites
Atsyn-Am
Songino-Khairkhan
Samples
2
Catalogue
Mongolia_Tuv_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
1Bulgan (Late Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Bulgan_LateMedieval3.06
2Sukhbaatar (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Sukhbaatar_MLBA3.23
3Tuv (Late Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Tuv_LateMedieval3.51
4Sukhbaatar (Late Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Sukhbaatar_LateMedieval4.09
5Yankovsky (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_IA_Yankovsky4.30
6Ulaanzukh 2 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_LBA_Ulaanzukh_24.44
7Yumin (Neolithic)Yumin_N4.52
8Western Liao River (Middle Neolithic)Western_Liao_River_MN4.60
9Amur River (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 14500 BP)Amur_River_14500BP4.73
10Dundgobi (Late Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Dundgobi_LateMedieval5.02
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1HezhenHezhen3.38
2DaurDaur3.52
3XiboXibo4.99
4OroqenOroqen5.17
5Mongol IMARMongol_IMAR5.73
6MongolaMongola6.73
7Mongol Inner MongoliaMongol_Inner_Mongolia7.44
8NanaiNanai7.91
9NivkhNivkh8.25
10UlchiUlchi8.45

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man 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
ATS001F23-121 calCEAtsyn-AmC4a1a
SON001M200 BCE - 100 CESongino-KhairkhanN1a2 N-Y3037D4