Ancient population · Bronze Age
Nerkin Getashen (Late Bronze Age)
Nerkin_Getashen_LBA
Nerkin Getashen (Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Nerkin_Getashen_LBA), with 1 sample from Gegharkunik, Armenia, dated to c. 1350 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Beniamin (Iron Age, Armenia), Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBA and Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Georgian Tush, Georgian Khevs and Andian A.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is X2.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1350 BCE
- Country
- Armenia
- Origin
- Gegharkunik, Armenia
- Sampled near
- Nerkin-Getashen 40.15, 45.26
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Nerkin_Getashen_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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beniamin (Iron Age, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_IA | 2.95 |
| 2 | Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBAArmenia_MBA | 3.27 |
| 3 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)Armenia_LBA_EIA | 3.38 |
| 4 | Lchashen Metsamor (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_LBA_LchashenMetsamor | 3.65 |
| 5 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Lchashen_LBA | 3.73 |
| 6 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age)Lchashen_LBA | 3.73 |
| 7 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBAArmenia_LBA | 3.77 |
| 8 | Noratus (Late Bronze Age)Noratus_LBA | 3.80 |
| 9 | Beniamin Urartu (Iron Age, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Urartu_IA | 3.85 |
| 10 | Bover Urartian (Iron Age)Bover_Urartian | 3.87 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgian TushGeorgian_Tush | 4.15 |
| 2 | Georgian KhevsGeorgian_Khevs | 4.19 |
| 3 | Andian AAndian_A | 4.21 |
| 4 | KarataKarata | 4.72 |
| 5 | ChechenChechen | 4.76 |
| 6 | UdiUdi | 4.81 |
| 7 | Tat Dagestan DzhalganTat_Dagestan_Dzhalgan | 4.89 |
| 8 | KumykKumyk | 4.97 |
| 9 | IngushianIngushian | 4.98 |
| 10 | Azerbaijani Republic ShakiAzerbaijani_Republic_Shaki | 4.99 |
Haplogroups
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.