Ancient population · Chalcolithic
Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia)
Russia_Caucasus_Maikop_Novosvobodnaya
Caucasus Maikop Novosvobodnaya (Chalcolithic, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Caucasus_Maikop_Novosvobodnaya), with 4 samples from Russia, dated to c. 3600–3090 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Maykop Late (Bronze Age), Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia) and Kura Araxes Kaps (Early Bronze Age, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Georgian Imer, Georgian West and Georgian Megr.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2a (2) and G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include R1a, T2c, U1b and X2f.
- Period
- Chalcolithic
- Date
- c. 3600–3090 BCE
- Country
- Russia
- Sampled near
- Dlinnaya-Polyana 44.39, 40.39
- Samples
- 4
- Published in
- WangHaakNatComm2019
- Catalogue
Russia_Caucasus_Maikop_Novosvobodnaya
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 | Maykop Late (Bronze Age)Maykop_Late | 2.52 |
| 2 | Kura Araxes Berkaber (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Berkaber | 2.60 |
| 3 | Kura Araxes Kaps (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kaps | 2.89 |
| 4 | Kura Araxes Kalavan (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Kalavan | 2.92 |
| 5 | Kura-Araxes Berkaber (Bronze Age)Kura-Araxes_Berkaber | 3.13 |
| 6 | Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_LateMaikop | 3.16 |
| 7 | Kura Araxes Karnut (Early Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_EBA_KuraAraxes_Karnut | 3.39 |
| 8 | Kura-Araxes KapsKura-Araxes_Kaps | 3.59 |
| 9 | Caucasus (Eneolithic, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_Eneolithic | 3.93 |
| 10 | Kura-Araxes VelikentKura-Araxes_Velikent | 4.12 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgian ImerGeorgian_Imer | 2.66 |
| 2 | Georgian WestGeorgian_West | 2.92 |
| 3 | Georgian MegrGeorgian_Megr | 3.08 |
| 4 | Georgian GuriaGeorgian_Guria | 3.20 |
| 5 | Georgian AjarGeorgian_Ajar | 3.28 |
| 6 | Georgian SvanetiGeorgian_Svaneti | 3.46 |
| 7 | Georgian KartGeorgian_Kart | 3.52 |
| 8 | Georgian MtiuletiGeorgian_Mtiuleti | 3.52 |
| 9 | Georgian LechkhumiGeorgian_Lechkhumi | 3.56 |
| 10 | Georgian RatchaGeorgian_Ratcha | 3.64 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I6266 | M | 3504-3348 calBCE | Dlinnaya-Polyana | J2a1a1a2b2a3b1a J-Y11200 | X2f |
I6267 | F | 3625-3372 calBCE | Dlinnaya-Polyana | T2c1a2 | |
I6268 | M | 3516-3370 calBCE | Dlinnaya-Polyana | J2a1a1a2b2a3b J-Y3020 | R1a1 |
I6272 | M | 3318-2934 calBCE | Dlinnaya-Polyana | G2a2a2 G-Y53493 | U1b1 |