Ancient population · Iron Age

Uvurkhangai Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)

Mongolia_Uvurkhangai_Xiongnu

Uvurkhangai Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mongolia_Uvurkhangai_Xiongnu), with 2 samples from Mongolia, dated to c. 0 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ulaanbaatar EIALate Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia), Sukhbaatar MLBAXiongnu Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia) and Slab Grave 1 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia); the nearest living populations are Oroqen, Khamnegan and Nanai.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup C2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include C5b and N9a.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 0 CE
Country
Mongolia
Origin
Mongolia
Sampled near
Tevsh Mountain 44.65, 102.06
Samples
2
Catalogue
Mongolia_Uvurkhangai_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
1Ulaanbaatar EIALate Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Ulaanbaatar_EIALateMedieval2.02
2Sukhbaatar MLBAXiongnu Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Sukhbaatar_MLBAXiongnuLateMedieval2.48
3Slab Grave 1 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_EIA_SlabGrave_13.01
4Bulgan Early Medieval Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Bulgan_EarlyMedievalLateMedieval3.62
5Buryatia Xiongnu (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_Buryatia_Xiongnu3.66
6Nomad Hun Sarmatian (Medieval, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Nomad_Hun_Sarmatian3.75
7Tuv (Late Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Tuv_LateMedieval3.80
8Birlik Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Birlik_Tasmola_EIA3.82
9Hun-Sarmatian (Medieval, Kazakhstan)KAZ_Hun-Sarmatian3.85
10North (Neolithic, Mongolia)Mongolia_North_N3.92
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1OroqenOroqen4.68
2KhamneganKhamnegan5.21
3NanaiNanai5.80
4UlchiUlchi6.47
5MongolMongol6.76
6DaurDaur6.76
7HezhenHezhen6.83
8BuryatBuryat7.16
9NivkhNivkh7.31
10Mongol IMARMongol_IMAR7.53

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
TEV002F200 BCE - 200 CETevsh MountainC5b
TEV003M200 BCE - 200 CETevsh MountainC2a1a1b1 C-Y10417N9a1