Ancient population · Iron Age
Ekven (Iron Age, Russia)
Russia_Ekven_IA
Ekven (Iron Age, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Ekven_IA), with 3 samples from Russia, dated to c. 110 BCE – 110 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ekven Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia), Uelen Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia) and Old Bering Ekven (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Eskimo Naukan, Eskimo and Eskimo Sireniki.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups Q1a (2) and Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include A2a, A2b and D4b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 110 BCE – 110 CE
- Country
- Russia
- Sampled near
- Ekven 66.12, -170.46
- Samples
- 3
- Catalogue
Russia_Ekven_IA.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 | Ekven Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia)Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea | 2.22 |
| 2 | Uelen Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia)Russia_Uelen_OldBeringSea | 2.52 |
| 3 | Old Bering Ekven (Medieval)Old_Bering_Ekven | 3.45 |
| 4 | Alaska Neo AleutAK_NeoAleut | 5.12 |
| 5 | Alaska Paleo Aleut (Medieval)AK_PaleoAleut | 5.86 |
| 6 | Alaska AthabskanAK_Athabskan | 7.30 |
| 7 | Alaska Ancient Athabaskan (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)AK_Ancient_Athabaskan_1100BP | 10.81 |
| 8 | Ancient Beringian (Hunter-Gatherer)Ancient_Beringian | 11.67 |
| 9 | Magadan (Bronze Age)Magadan_BA | 13.53 |
| 10 | Trail Creek (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP, Alaska)Alaska_TrailCreek_9000BP | 13.99 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eskimo NaukanEskimo_Naukan | 4.04 |
| 2 | EskimoEskimo | 4.55 |
| 3 | Eskimo SirenikiEskimo_Sireniki | 6.12 |
| 4 | Eskimo ChaplinEskimo_Chaplin | 6.45 |
| 5 | ChukchiChukchi | 10.76 |
| 6 | ChipewyanChipewyan | 12.68 |
| 7 | Greenlander EastGreenlander_East | 13.04 |
| 8 | Amerindian NorthAmerindian_North | 14.50 |
| 9 | ItelmenItelmen | 15.34 |
| 10 | KoryakKoryak | 15.90 |
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.