Ancient population · Neolithic
Devils Cave (Neolithic, Russia)
Russia_DevilsCave_N
Devils Cave (Neolithic, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_DevilsCave_N), with 3 samples from Russia, dated to c. 5700–5560 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Devils Gate Cave (Neolithic), Amur River (Mesolithic, China) and Boisman (Middle Neolithic, Russia); the nearest living populations are Nivkh, Hezhen and Oroqen.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include D4 (2) and D4m.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 5700–5560 BCE
- Country
- Russia
- Sampled near
- Devil's-Gate-Cave 44.55, 135.58
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- SikoraWillerslevNature2019
- Catalogue
Russia_DevilsCave_N.SGvariant
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 | Devils Gate Cave (Neolithic)Devils_Gate_Cave_N | 1.28 |
| 2 | Amur River (Mesolithic, China)China_AmurRiver_Mesolithic | 1.68 |
| 3 | Boisman (Middle Neolithic, Russia)Russia_Boisman_MN | 2.48 |
| 4 | Amur River (Neolithic, China)China_AmurRiver_N | 2.86 |
| 5 | Amur River (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 14100 BP)Amur_River_14100BP | 2.89 |
| 6 | Amur River (Neolithic, c. 10600 BP)Amur_River_10600BP | 2.99 |
| 7 | Amur River (Neolithic, c. 6870 BP)Amur_River_6870BP | 3.00 |
| 8 | Amur River (Neolithic, c. 10500 BP)Amur_River_10500BP | 3.03 |
| 9 | Yankovsky (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_IA_Yankovsky | 3.04 |
| 10 | Amur River (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 11000 BP)Amur_River_11000BP | 3.06 |
Haplogroups
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.