Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Steppe Maikop (Chalcolithic, Russia)

Russia_Steppe_Maikop

Steppe Maikop (Chalcolithic, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Steppe_Maikop), with 3 samples from Russia, dated to c. 3500–3210 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Mereke (Middle Bronze Age, Kazakhstan), Kumsay (Early Bronze Age, Kazakhstan) and Xinjiang Songshugou (Bronze Age, China); the nearest living populations are Udmurt, Besermyan and Pamiri Shugnan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include U7b (2) and H2a.

Date
c. 3500–3210 BCE
Country
Russia
Sampled near
Sharakhalsun-6 45.52, 43.56
Sites
Sharakhalsun-6 (2)
Aygurskiy-2
Samples
3
Catalogue
Russia_Steppe_Maikop
Russia_Steppe_Maikop_o outliers
Russia_Steppe_Maikop_o2 outliers

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
1Mereke (Middle Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Mereke_MBA2.20
2Kumsay (Early Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Kumsay_EBA2.62
3Xinjiang Songshugou (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_BA4.75
4Steppe Lola (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Steppe_Lola5.28
5Chemurchek 2 (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_EBA_Chemurchek_25.35
6Xinjiang Songshugou Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China) · China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_Afanasievo_BAChina_Xinjiang_Songshugou_Afanasievo_BA5.38
7Xinjiang G 218 Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_G218_BA_Afanasievo5.40
8Xinjiang Ayituohan Afanasievo (Bronze Age, China) · China_Xinjiang_Ayituohan_Afanasievo_BAChina_Xinjiang_Ayituohan_Afanasievo_BA5.75
9Xinjiang Bolati Chemurcheck (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Bolati_BA_Chemurcheck5.99
10Xinjiang Chaganguole Chemurcheck (Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Chaganguole_BA_Chemurcheck6.02
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1UdmurtUdmurt15.69
2BesermyanBesermyan16.20
3Pamiri ShugnanPamiri_Shugnan16.94
4Tajik ShugnanTajik_Shugnan16.99
5Tajik RushanTajik_Rushan17.10
6Pamiri RushanPamiri_Rushan17.14
7KomiKomi17.23
8Komi AKomi_A17.24
9Pamiri IshkashimPamiri_Ishkashim17.26
10Pamiri WakhiPamiri_Wakhi17.26

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 7

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
AY2003Russia_Steppe_MaikopF3630-3376 calBCEAygurskiy-2H2a1
SA6001Russia_Steppe_MaikopF3520-3371 calBCESharakhalsun-6U7b
SA6004Russia_Steppe_MaikopM3359-3034 calBCESharakhalsun-6Q1b2b1b2b Q-BZ1466U7b
AY2001 outlierRussia_Steppe_Maikop_o2F3514-3360 calBCEAygurskiy-2T2e
IV3002 outlierRussia_Steppe_Maikop_oM3617-2885 calBCE [union of two dates: 3617-3124 calBCEIpatovo-3T T-L206X1'2'3
MK5005.C0101 outlierRussia_Steppe_Maikop_o2F3650-3350 BCEMaryinskaya-5
SA6013 outlierRussia_Steppe_Maikop_oM3360-3102 calBCESharakhalsun-6R1a R-M459I5b