Ancient population · Bronze Age

Zavkhan (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)

Mongolia_Zavkhan_MLBA

Zavkhan (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mongolia_Zavkhan_MLBA), with 2 samples from Mongolia, dated to c. 1350 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Khovsgol (Bronze Age), Center West 4 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia) and Khovsgol 6 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia); the nearest living populations are Mogush, Tuvinian and Altaian Kizhi.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include C4a and F1b.

Date
c. 1350 BCE
Country
Mongolia
Origin
Mongolia
Sampled near
Biluutiin-Am 49.53, 96.38
Sites
Biluutiin-Am
Khukh-Khoshuunii-Boom
Samples
2
Catalogue
Mongolia_Zavkhan_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
1Khovsgol (Bronze Age)Khovsgol_BA1.95
2Center West 4 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_LBA_CenterWest_42.07
3Khovsgol 6 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_LBA_Khovsgol_62.12
4Xinjiang Songshugou Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China) · China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_BA_AfanasievoChina_Xinjiang_Songshugou_BA_Afanasievo2.47
5Ulgii 1 (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_EBA_Ulgii_12.83
6Mongolia 1 (Bronze Age)Mongolia_BA_12.85
7Khovd Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khovd_Xiongnu3.57
8Ust Belaya (Chalcolithic)Ust_Belaya3.60
9Munkhkhairkhan 1 (Middle Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_MBA_Munkhkhairkhan_13.60
10Center West 4 (Late Bronze Age)Center_West_LBA_43.85
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1MogushMogush5.83
2TuvinianTuvinian6.16
3Altaian KizhiAltaian_Kizhi6.73
4AltaianAltaian7.06
5Khakass KachinsKhakass_Kachins7.26
6Mongol XinjiangMongol_Xinjiang8.18
7KalmykKalmyk8.26
8BuryatBuryat8.36
9MongolianMongolian8.48
10KhamneganKhamnegan9.07

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
BIL001F1420-1273 calBCEBiluutiin-AmF1b1b
KHU001M2000-700 BCEKhukh-Khoshuunii-BoomQ1b1a3 Q-L330C4a1a