Ancient population · Neolithic

Central Yakutia (Late Neolithic, Russia)

Russia_CentralYakutia_LN

Central Yakutia (Late Neolithic, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_CentralYakutia_LN), with 2 samples from Russia, dated to c. 2550–2250 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ymyiakhtakh (Late Neolithic, Yakutia), Kolyma River (Late Neolithic, Russia) and Krasnoyarsk (Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Yukagir, Yukagir Tundra and Evenk.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup N1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is A12a (2).

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 2550–2250 BCE
Country
Russia
Sampled near
Kyordyughen-1 62.07, 132.33
Sites
Kyordyughen-1
Kyordyughen-2
Samples
2
Catalogue
Russia_CentralYakutia_LN.SG variant

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
#PopulationDistance
1Ymyiakhtakh (Late Neolithic, Yakutia)Yakutia_Ymyiakhtakh_LN3.73
2Kolyma River (Late Neolithic, Russia)Russia_KolymaRiver_LN4.83
3Krasnoyarsk (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Krasnoyarsk_BA7.26
4MDorset (Antiquity, Canada)Canada_MDorset8.95
5Lena River Middle N (Chalcolithic, Russia)Russia_LenaRiver_MiddleN9.78
6Saqqaq (Bronze Age, Greenland)Greenland_Saqqaq9.92
7Angara River (Early Neolithic)Angara_River_EN10.09
8Angara River (Early Neolithic, Russia)Russia_AngaraRiver_EN10.09
9Lena River (Early Neolithic)Lena_River_EN10.37
10Lena River (Early Neolithic, Russia)Russia_LenaRiver_EN10.37
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1YukagirYukagir6.01
2Yukagir TundraYukagir_Tundra6.36
3EvenkEvenk6.80
4TodzinTodzin8.68
5NganasanNganasan8.70
6NganassanNganassan8.84
7EvenEven9.52
8DolganDolgan10.47
9NegidalNegidal11.62
10KoryakKoryak11.81

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
N4a1_noUDG.SGM2663-2469 calBCEKyordyughen-2N1a1a1a N-L708A12a
N4b2_noUDG.SG2401-2141 calBCEKyordyughen-1A12a