Ancient population · Bronze Age
North Caucasus (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)
Russia_North_Caucasus_MBA
North Caucasus (Middle Bronze Age, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_North_Caucasus_MBA), with 2 samples from Russia, dated to c. 1890–1800 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Himera 480BCE 5 (Iron Age, Sicily), Armenia (Early Iron Age) and Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Hinukh, Tsez A and Hunzib.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include HV1a and X2i.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1890–1800 BCE
- Country
- Russia
- Sampled near
- Kudachurt 43.35, 43.72
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- WangHaakNatComm2019
- Catalogue
Russia_North_Caucasus_MBA
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 | Himera 480BCE 5 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_5 | 3.14 |
| 2 | Armenia (Early Iron Age)Armenia_EIA | 4.22 |
| 3 | Bagheri Tchala (Early Iron Age)Bagheri_Tchala_EIA | 4.46 |
| 4 | Armenia (Iron Age)Armenia_IA | 4.47 |
| 5 | Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)Armenia_Lchashen_LBA | 4.59 |
| 6 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)Armenia_LBA_EIA | 4.61 |
| 7 | Kura-Araxes VelikentKura-Araxes_Velikent | 4.64 |
| 8 | Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_LateMaikop | 4.65 |
| 9 | Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBAArmenia_LBA | 4.72 |
| 10 | Dzharkutan 2 (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Dzharkutan_BA_2 | 4.76 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HinukhHinukh | 2.75 |
| 2 | Tsez ATsez_A | 3.02 |
| 3 | HunzibHunzib | 3.17 |
| 4 | KarataKarata | 3.50 |
| 5 | Georgian KhevsGeorgian_Khevs | 3.74 |
| 6 | Georgian TushGeorgian_Tush | 3.90 |
| 7 | ChechenChechen | 3.92 |
| 8 | Tsez BTsez_B | 4.24 |
| 9 | IngushianIngushian | 4.27 |
| 10 | BagvalinBagvalin | 4.45 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.