Ancient population · Medieval

Caucasus (Medieval, Russia)

Name: Caucasus (Medieval, Russia) (Russia_Caucasus_Medieval)
Creator: Genoplot

Russia_Caucasus_Medieval

Caucasus (Medieval, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Caucasus_Medieval), with 3 samples from Russia, dated to c. 930–1090 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Anapa (Medieval), North Ossetian (Russia) and Alan (Medieval, Russia); the nearest living populations are Abazin, Karachay and Kabardin.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c (2) and U5a.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 930–1090 CE
Country: Russia
Sampled near: Andreyevskaya-Shhel 44.97, 37.50
Samples: 3
Published in: MarótiTörökCurrBiol2022
Catalogue: Russia_Caucasus_Medieval

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	Anapa (Medieval)`Anapa_MA`	0.45
2	North Ossetian (Russia)`Russia_NorthOssetian`	3.52
3	Alan (Medieval, Russia)`Russia_Alan`	3.55
4	Dzharkutan 2 (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)`Uzbekistan_Dzharkutan_BA_2`	3.66
5	Alan (Medieval)`Alan_MA`	3.66
6	Lchashen Metsamor (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_LBA_LchashenMetsamor`	4.73
7	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age)`Lchashen_LBA`	4.74
8	Nerkin Getashen (Late Bronze Age)`Nerkin_Getashen_LBA`	5.12
9	Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)`Armenia_LBA_EIA`	5.19
10	Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBA`Armenia_MBA`	5.25

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Abazin`Abazin`	2.33
2	Karachay`Karachay`	2.48
3	Kabardin`Kabardin`	2.49
4	Circassian`Circassian`	2.49
5	Cherkes`Cherkes`	2.50
6	Balkar`Balkar`	2.78
7	Kumyk`Kumyk`	2.93
8	Adygei`Adygei`	3.47
9	Ingushian`Ingushian`	3.59
10	North Ossetian`North_Ossetian`	3.90

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1a1a1b1a2b3a1c R-YP582
R1a1a1b1a2b3a1c1 R-YP5192

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

J1c 2
U5a2a1

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`Anapa-10.SG`		886-992 calCE	Andreyevskaya-Shhel	R1a1a1b1a2b3a1c1 R-YP5192	J1c
`Anapa-11.SG`		776-994 calCE	Andreyevskaya-Shhel	R1a1a1b1a2b3a1c R-YP582	J1c
`Anapa-9.SG`	F	1024-1157 calCE	Andreyevskaya-Shhel		U5a2a1