Ancient population · Bronze Age

Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia)

Name: Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia) (Russia_Afanasievo)
Creator: Genoplot

Russia_Afanasievo

Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Afanasievo), with 25 samples from Russia, dated to c. 3110–2500 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia), Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia) and Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Darginian, Akhvakh and Pamiri Rushan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1b (11) and Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a (6), J2a (3), T2a (3) and U4b (3).

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 3110–2500 BCE
Country: Russia
Sampled near: Afanasieva Gora 52.43, 84.72
Sites: Afanasieva Gora (5)
Karasuk-3 (5)
Elo-1 (3)
Nizhny-Tyumechin-1 (3)
Elo-Bashi (2)
and 6 more
Samples: 25
Published in: NarasimhanReichScience2019
AllentoftWillerslevNature2015
LazaridisReichNature2025
Catalogue: Russia_Afanasievo
Russia_Afanasievo.SG variant

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Steppe_Catacomb`	1.35
2	Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya`	1.69
3	Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_MBA_Poltavka`	1.83
4	Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA`	2.12
5	Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia)`Yamnaya_RUS_Kalmykia`	2.13
6	Kalmykia Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Kalmykia_EBA_Yamnaya`	2.16
7	Afanasievo 1 (Chalcolithic, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Chalcolithic_Afanasievo_1`	2.38
8	Yamnaya Karagash (Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)`Yamnaya_KAZ_Karagash`	2.75
9	Caucasus Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Caucasus_EBA_Yamnaya`	2.77
10	Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Ukraine)`Ukraine_EBA_Yamnaya`	2.96

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Darginian`Darginian`	12.91
2	Akhvakh`Akhvakh`	12.97
3	Pamiri Rushan`Pamiri_Rushan`	13.08
4	Tajik Rushan`Tajik_Rushan`	13.09
5	Finnish Central`Finnish_Central`	13.33
6	Avar`Avar`	13.35
7	Erzya`Erzya`	13.38
8	Kaitag`Kaitag`	13.38
9	Andian B`Andian_B`	13.40
10	Finnish East`Finnish_East`	13.41

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

12 men with a call

R1b1a1b1b R-M12149 8
R1b1a1b R-M269 2
Q1b2a1a Q-FT380500
R1b1a1b1b3 R-FT289343

mtDNA

24 individuals with a call

Individuals 26

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I10564`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	F	3300-2500 BCE	Afanasieva Gora		V1a
`I10565`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	F	2889-2668 calBCE	Afanasieva Gora		T2c1a2
`I11112`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	3050-2750 BCE	Podsukhanikha-2	R1b1a1b R-M269	H15b1
`I11752`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	F	2900-2500 BCE	Inskoy-Dol		U4d3
`I1829`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	F	3011-2890 calBCE	Saldyar-1		J2a2a
`I2069`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	F	3331-2921 calBCE	Kaminnaya-Cave		K1b2a
`I2071`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	3088-2919 calBCE	Ust'-Kuyum	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	H6a1b
`I3387`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	2900-2600 BCE	Afanasieva Gora	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	J2a2a
`I3388`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	F	2800-2600 BCE	Karasuk-3		U5a1d2b
`I3950`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	2879-2632 calBCE	Karasuk-3	Q1b2a1a Q-FT380500	U5b2a1a
`I3952`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	2868-2577 calBCE	Karasuk-3	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	U5a1a1
`I3954`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	F	2874-2586 calBCE	Karasuk-3		U4b3
`I5269`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	3016-2897 calBCE	Elo-1	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	T2a1a
`I5270`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	3323-2935 calBCE	Elo-1	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	T1a1
`I5271`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	F	3011-2900 calBCE	Elo-1		T2a1a
`I5272`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	F	3006-2885 calBCE	Elo-Bashi		U5a1g1
`I5273`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	3011-2885 calBCE	Nizhny-Tyumechin-1	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	T2a1a
`I5277`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	3092-2923 calBCE	Elo-Bashi	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	U4b3
`I5278`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	3082-2910 calBCE	Nizhny-Tyumechin-1	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	U5a1a1
`I5279`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	3011-2897 calBCE	Nizhny-Tyumechin-1	R1b1a1b1b3 R-FT289343	U4d1
`I6711`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	M	2950-2650 BCE	Afanasieva Gora	R1b1a1b R-M269	J2a2a
`I6713`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	F	3000-2000 BCE	Afanasieva Gora		U5a1g2
`I6715`	`Russia_Afanasievo`	F	2950-2550 BCE	Karasuk-3		U4b3
`RISE507.508.merge_noUDG.SG`	`Russia_Afanasievo.SG`	F	3323-2932 calBCE	Herxheim		U5a1a1
`RISE509_noUDG.SG`	`Russia_Afanasievo.SG`
`RISE510_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Russia_Afanasievo.SG`	F	2848-2465 calBCE	Afanasieva Gora		J2a2a