Ancient population · Bronze Age

Nemrik9 (Late Bronze Age)

Nemrik9_LBA

Nemrik9 (Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Nemrik9_LBA), with 1 sample from Kurdistan Region, Iraq, dated to c. 1350 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Dinkha Tepe 1 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran), Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age) and Turkey (Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Iraqi Jew, Kurdish Jew and Karaite Iraq.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is HV1.

Date
c. 1350 BCE
Country
Iraq
Origin
Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Sampled near
Nemrik 9 36.72, 42.85
Samples
1
Catalogue
Nemrik9_LBA

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
1Dinkha Tepe 1 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran)Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_12.99
2Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age)DinkhaTepe_BIA_A3.36
3Turkey (Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)Turkey_LateC_EBA3.40
4Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)Turkey_MBA3.57
5Turkey (Medieval)Turkey_Medieval3.58
6Iraq (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A)Iraq_PPNA3.59
7Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA3.86
8Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA3.91
9SE Sirnak (Bronze Age)SE_Sirnak_BA3.98
10Roman Byzantine 3 (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_RomanByzantine_34.07
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Iraqi JewIraqi_Jew3.40
2Kurdish JewKurdish_Jew3.50
3Karaite IraqKaraite_Iraq3.75
4Chaldean IraqChaldean_Iraq3.83
5Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh3.88
6Iranian JewIranian_Jew3.90
7Mountain Jew DagestanMountain_Jew_Dagestan4.09
8Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta4.12
9Mountain Jew AzerbaijanMountain_Jew_Azerbaijan4.16
10Nash Didan Jew UrmiaNash_Didan_Jew_Urmia4.17

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I6441M1500-1200 BCENemrik 9J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919HV1a'b'c