Ancient population · Chalcolithic
Caucasus Maikop (Chalcolithic, Russia)
Russia_Caucasus_Maikop
Caucasus Maikop (Chalcolithic, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Caucasus_Maikop), with 1 sample from Russia, dated to c. 3630 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Armenia (Iron Age), Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA and Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Andian A, Georgian Tush and Udi.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is J2a.
- Period
- Chalcolithic
- Date
- c. 3630 BCE
- Country
- Russia
- Sampled near
- Nogir-3 43.08, 44.63
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- WangHaakNatComm2019
- Catalogue
Russia_Caucasus_Maikop
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 | Armenia (Iron Age)Armenia_IA | 3.81 |
| 2 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBAArmenia_LBA | 3.85 |
| 3 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Lchashen_LBA | 3.95 |
| 4 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age)Lchashen_LBA | 4.01 |
| 5 | Armenia (Early Iron Age)Armenia_EIA | 4.05 |
| 6 | Lchashen Metsamor (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_LBA_LchashenMetsamor | 4.06 |
| 7 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)Armenia_LBA_EIA | 4.07 |
| 8 | Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBAArmenia_MBA | 4.16 |
| 9 | Armenia (Late Iron Age)Armenia_LIA | 4.17 |
| 10 | Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)Bagheri_Tchala_EIA | 4.40 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andian AAndian_A | 4.22 |
| 2 | Georgian TushGeorgian_Tush | 4.37 |
| 3 | UdiUdi | 4.37 |
| 4 | Georgian KhevsGeorgian_Khevs | 4.44 |
| 5 | Tat AzerbaijanTat_Azerbaijan | 4.60 |
| 6 | Azerbaijani Republic ShakiAzerbaijani_Republic_Shaki | 4.62 |
| 7 | Georgian KartGeorgian_Kart | 4.72 |
| 8 | Georgian KakhGeorgian_Kakh | 4.75 |
| 9 | Georgian North EastGeorgian_NorthEast | 4.86 |
| 10 | Alevi DersimAlevi_Dersim | 4.88 |
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
OSS001 | F | 3704-3535 calBCE | Nogir-3 | J2a1 |