Ancient population · Bronze Age

Caucasus Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)

Russia_Caucasus_EBA_Yamnaya

Caucasus Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Caucasus_EBA_Yamnaya), with 3 samples from Russia, dated to c. 3150–2770 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia), Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia) and Catacomb (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova); the nearest living populations are Tajik Rushan, Pamiri Rushan and Darginian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include U5a (2) and T2a.

Date
c. 3150–2770 BCE
Country
Russia
Sampled near
Rasshevatskiy-1 45.58, 41.61
Sites
Rasshevatskiy-1 (2)
Zolotarevka-2
Samples
3
Catalogue
Russia_Caucasus_EBA_Yamnaya

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
1Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Steppe_Catacomb2.72
2Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Afanasievo2.77
3Catacomb (Middle Bronze Age, Moldova)Moldova_MBA_Catacomb3.13
4Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA3.19
5North Caucasus (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_North_Caucasus3.27
6Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya3.28
7Afanasievo 1 (Chalcolithic, Mongolia)Mongolia_Chalcolithic_Afanasievo_13.29
8Kalmykia Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Kalmykia_EBA_Yamnaya3.55
9Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia)Yamnaya_RUS_Kalmykia3.57
10Poltavka (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_MBA_Poltavka3.57
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Tajik RushanTajik_Rushan11.46
2Pamiri RushanPamiri_Rushan11.47
3DarginianDarginian11.84
4AkhvakhAkhvakh11.91
5Pamiri ShugnanPamiri_Shugnan12.02
6Tajik ShugnanTajik_Shugnan12.11
7AvarAvar12.26
8Andian BAndian_B12.34
9KaitagKaitag12.41
10KubachinianKubachinian12.46

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man 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
RK1001M2881-2639 calBCERasshevatskiy-1R1b1a1b1 R-FT130482U5a1d
RK1007F3331-3013 calBCERasshevatskiy-1T2a1
ZO2002F3300-2500 BCEZolotarevka-2U5a1