Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Caucasus (Eneolithic, Russia)

Name: Caucasus (Eneolithic, Russia) (Russia_Caucasus_Eneolithic)
Creator: Genoplot

Russia_Caucasus_Eneolithic

Caucasus (Eneolithic, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Caucasus_Eneolithic), with 1 sample from Russia, dated to c. 4520 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Darkveti-Meshoko En (Chalcolithic), Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia) and Maykop Late (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Georgian Megr, Georgian Svaneti and Georgian West.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is R1a.

Period: Chalcolithic
Date: c. 4520 BCE
Country: Russia
Sampled near: Unakozovskaya 44.25, 40.22
Samples: 1
Published in: WangHaakNatComm2019
Catalogue: Russia_Caucasus_Eneolithic

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	Darkveti-Meshoko En (Chalcolithic)`Darkveti-Meshoko_En`	2.88
2	Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia)`Russia_Caucasus_Maikop_Novosvobodnaya`	3.93
3	Maykop Late (Bronze Age)`Maykop_Late`	4.48
4	Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Caucasus_LateMaikop`	4.93
5	Bragdzor (Early Iron Age)`Bragdzor_EIA`	5.25
6	North Caucasus (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_North_Caucasus_MBA`	5.38
7	Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Berkaber`	5.41
8	Kura Araxes Kaps (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kaps`	5.49
9	Himera 480BCE 5 (Iron Age, Sicily)`Sicily_Himera_480BCE_5`	5.55
10	Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan`	5.67

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Megr`Georgian_Megr`	4.32
2	Georgian Svaneti`Georgian_Svaneti`	4.42
3	Georgian West`Georgian_West`	4.47
4	Georgian Imer`Georgian_Imer`	4.71
5	Georgian Guria`Georgian_Guria`	4.73
6	Abkhasian`Abkhasian`	5.15
7	Georgian Ratcha`Georgian_Ratcha`	5.17
8	Abkhasian Gudauta`Abkhasian_Gudauta`	5.37
9	Georgian Ajar`Georgian_Ajar`	5.55
10	Georgian Lechkhumi`Georgian_Lechkhumi`	5.58

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J2a1a1a2b2a3b1a J-Y11200

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I2056`	M	4607-4450 calBCE	Unakozovskaya	J2a1a1a2b2a3b1a J-Y11200	R1a