Ancient population · Medieval

Ekven Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia)

Name: Ekven Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia) (Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea)
Creator: Genoplot

Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea

Ekven Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea), with 17 samples from Russia, dated to c. 600–1340 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Uelen Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia), Ekven (Iron Age, Russia) and Old Bering Ekven (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Eskimo Naukan, Eskimo and Eskimo Sireniki.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups Q1b (3) and C2a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include A2a (4), A2b (3) and D4b (3).

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 600–1340 CE
Country: Russia
Sampled near: Ekven 66.12, -170.46
Samples: 17
Published in: FlegontovSchiffelsNature2019
SikoraWillerslevNature2019
Catalogue: Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea
Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea.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
#	Population	Distance
1	Uelen Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia)`Russia_Uelen_OldBeringSea`	1.35
2	Ekven (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_Ekven_IA`	2.22
3	Old Bering Ekven (Medieval)`Old_Bering_Ekven`	2.45
4	Alaska Neo Aleut`AK_NeoAleut`	5.03
5	Alaska Paleo Aleut (Medieval)`AK_PaleoAleut`	5.75
6	Alaska Athabskan`AK_Athabskan`	7.40
7	Alaska Ancient Athabaskan (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)`AK_Ancient_Athabaskan_1100BP`	11.01
8	Ancient Beringian (Hunter-Gatherer)`Ancient_Beringian`	12.03
9	Magadan (Bronze Age)`Magadan_BA`	13.59
10	Kolyma M (Russia)`Russia_Kolyma_M`	14.09

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Eskimo Naukan`Eskimo_Naukan`	2.94
2	Eskimo`Eskimo`	3.66
3	Eskimo Sireniki`Eskimo_Sireniki`	5.44
4	Eskimo Chaplin`Eskimo_Chaplin`	5.52
5	Chukchi`Chukchi`	10.33
6	Chipewyan`Chipewyan`	12.99
7	Greenlander East`Greenlander_East`	13.91
8	Amerindian North`Amerindian_North`	14.76
9	Itelmen`Itelmen`	15.01
10	Koryak`Koryak`	15.59

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

5 men with a call

Q1b1a1a Q-M3 3
C2a1a1 C-F15910 2

mtDNA

10 individuals with a call

A2b1 3
D4b1a2a1 3
A2a 2
A2a1 2

Individuals 17

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	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I20756`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`
`I7331`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`	M	720-1090 calCE	Ekven	Q1b1a1a Q-M3	A2b1
`I7332`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`
`I7333`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`	F	510-890 calCE	Ekven		A2a
`I7337`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`
`I7338`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`	M	1210-1470 calCE	Ekven	Q1b1a1a Q-M3	A2b1
`I7339`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`	M	690-1040 calCE	Ekven	Q1b1a1a Q-M3	D4b1a2a1
`I7340`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`	M	810-1050 calCE	Ekven	C2a1a1 C-F15910	A2b1
`I7341`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`	M	710-990 calCE	Ekven	C2a1a1 C-F3918	A2a1
`I7343`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`
`I7344`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`	F	730-1010 calCE	Ekven		A2a1
`I7346`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`
`I7347`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`	F	1050-1400 calCE	Ekven		D4b1a2a1
`I7348`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`
`I7349`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`	F	640-980 calCE	Ekven		A2a
`I7621`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`	F	480-710 calCE	Ekven		D4b1a2a1
`NEO248_noUDG.SG`	`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea.SG`