Ancient population · Bronze Age
Caucasus Kura Araxes (Bronze Age, Russia)
Russia_Caucasus_KuraAraxes
Caucasus Kura Araxes (Bronze Age, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Caucasus_KuraAraxes), with 1 sample from Russia, dated to c. 2900 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kura-Araxes Velikent, Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia) and Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Hinukh, Tsez A and Georgian Khevs.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is U4a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2900 BCE
- Country
- Russia
- Sampled near
- Velikent 42.18, 48.07
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- WangHaakNatComm2019
- Catalogue
Russia_Caucasus_KuraAraxes
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 | Kura-Araxes VelikentKura-Araxes_Velikent | 1.26 |
| 2 | Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_LateMaikop | 4.06 |
| 3 | Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Berkaber | 4.20 |
| 4 | Bover Urartian (Iron Age)Bover_Urartian | 4.28 |
| 5 | Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan | 4.31 |
| 6 | Armenia (Early Iron Age)Armenia_EIA | 4.33 |
| 7 | Maykop Late (Bronze Age)Maykop_Late | 4.34 |
| 8 | Kura-Araxes Berkaber (Bronze Age)Kura-Araxes_Berkaber | 4.46 |
| 9 | Kura Araxes Karnut (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Karnut | 4.57 |
| 10 | Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_Maikop_Novosvobodnaya | 4.72 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HinukhHinukh | 4.32 |
| 2 | Tsez ATsez_A | 4.59 |
| 3 | Georgian KhevsGeorgian_Khevs | 4.61 |
| 4 | Georgian TushGeorgian_Tush | 4.93 |
| 5 | Georgian KakhGeorgian_Kakh | 5.12 |
| 6 | Andian AAndian_A | 5.19 |
| 7 | Georgian JavakhetiGeorgian_Javakheti | 5.29 |
| 8 | KarataKarata | 5.44 |
| 9 | Georgian KartGeorgian_Kart | 5.54 |
| 10 | Abkhasian GudautaAbkhasian_Gudauta | 5.54 |
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.