Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Lena River Middle N (Chalcolithic, Russia)

Russia_LenaRiver_MiddleN

Lena River Middle N (Chalcolithic, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_LenaRiver_MiddleN), with 1 sample from Russia, dated to c. 4280 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Saqqaq (Bronze Age, Greenland), Dzhylinda (Mesolithic) and Buryatia M (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Todzin, Itelmen and Koryak.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is D4b.

Date
c. 4280 BCE
Country
Russia
Sampled near
Onnyos 60.46, 131.09
Samples
1
Catalogue
Russia_LenaRiver_MiddleN.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
1Saqqaq (Bronze Age, Greenland)Greenland_Saqqaq5.27
2Dzhylinda (Mesolithic)Dzhylinda_Meso5.32
3Buryatia M (Neolithic)Buryatia_M5.42
4Buryatia M (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_Buryatia_M5.63
5Late Dorset (Canada)Canada_LateDorset5.75
6MDorset (Antiquity, Canada)Canada_MDorset5.99
7Lake Baikal (Neolithic)Lake_Baikal_N6.59
8Lake Baikal (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_LakeBaikal_N6.59
9Ust Belaya Angara (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_UstBelaya_Angara6.65
10Angara River (Neolithic)Angara_River_N6.71
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1TodzinTodzin8.22
2ItelmenItelmen8.68
3KoryakKoryak9.01
4TuvinianTuvinian9.30
5MogushMogush9.57
6Yukagir TundraYukagir_Tundra9.90
7KhamneganKhamnegan10.44
8ChukchiChukchi10.89
9DolganDolgan11.22
10YukagirYukagir11.71

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 1

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.

SampleDateSitemtDNA
N5a.SG4343-4176 calBCEOnnyosD4b1c