Ancient population · Antiquity

Butkara (Historical, Pakistan)

Pakistan_Butkara_H

Butkara (Historical, Pakistan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Pakistan_Butkara_H), with 3 samples from Pakistan, dated to c. 90 BCE – 20 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Aligrama (Historical, Pakistan), Saidu Sharif (Historical, Pakistan) and Butkara (Historical); the nearest living populations are Gujar India, Gujar Rajasthan and Kashmiri Pakistan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1 (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H, M30 and U2a.

Period
Antiquity
Date
c. 90 BCE – 20 CE
Country
Pakistan
Sampled near
Butkara IV 34.77, 72.37
Samples
3
Catalogue
Pakistan_Butkara_H

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
1Aligrama (Historical, Pakistan)Pakistan_Aligrama_H2.23
2Saidu Sharif (Historical, Pakistan)Pakistan_SaiduSharif_H2.28
3Butkara (Historical)Butkara_H3.03
4Aligrama (Iron Age, Pakistan)Pakistan_Aligrama_IA3.07
5Barikot 2 (Medieval, Pakistan)Pakistan_Barikot_Medieval_23.38
6Katelai (Iron Age, Pakistan)Pakistan_Katelai_IA3.73
7Brahmin Himachal Pradesh WestBrahmin_Himachal_Pradesh_West3.89
8Barikot (Historical, Pakistan)Pakistan_Barikot_H3.93
9Loebanr (Iron Age, Pakistan)Pakistan_Loebanr_IA4.07
10Loebanr (Iron Age)Loebanr_IA4.30
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Gujar IndiaGujar_India2.81
2Gujar RajasthanGujar_Rajasthan2.81
3Kashmiri PakistanKashmiri_Pakistan3.08
4Rajput RajasthanRajput_Rajasthan3.13
5Syed Uttar Pradesh WestSyed_Uttar_Pradesh_West3.18
6Brahmin GujaratBrahmin_Gujarat3.30
7Tarkhan MuslimTarkhan_Muslim3.50
8Brahmin Jammu DograBrahmin_Jammu_Dogra3.50
9Punjabi Hindu IndiaPunjabi_Hindu_India3.57
10Kashmiri India MuslimKashmiri_India_Muslim3.58

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

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
I6549M165-2 calBCEButkara IVJ1 J1M30
I6550M42 calBCE - 108 calCEButkara IVJ1 J-Y6304U2a
I6551F200 BCE - 100 CEButkara IVH