Ancient population · Bronze Age

Ust Belaya Angara (Bronze Age, Russia)

Name: Ust Belaya Angara (Bronze Age, Russia) (Russia_UstBelaya_Angara)
Creator: Genoplot

Russia_UstBelaya_Angara

Ust Belaya Angara (Bronze Age, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_UstBelaya_Angara), with 8 samples from Russia, dated to c. 2850–2660 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Angara River (Neolithic), Lake Baikal (Neolithic) and Lake Baikal (Neolithic, Russia); the nearest living populations are Todzin, Tuvinian and Mogush.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include C4a (3), D4j and F1b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2850–2660 BCE
Country: Russia
Sampled near: Ust'-Belaya 52.92, 103.66
Samples: 8
Published in: FlegontovSchiffelsNature2019
ZengReichNature2025
Catalogue: Russia_UstBelaya_Angara
Russia_UstBelaya_Angara.SG variant
Russia_UstBelaya_Angara_o outliers
Russia_UstBelaya_Angara_o.SG 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
#	Population	Distance
1	Angara River (Neolithic)`Angara_River_N`	1.43
2	Lake Baikal (Neolithic)`Lake_Baikal_N`	1.50
3	Lake Baikal (Neolithic, Russia)`Russia_LakeBaikal_N`	1.50
4	Angara River (Bronze Age)`Angara_River_BA`	1.67
5	Angara River (Neolithic, Russia)`Russia_AngaraRiver_N`	1.69
6	Siberia Lena (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Siberia_Lena_EBA`	2.02
7	Ust Ida (Early Bronze Age)`Ust_Ida_EBA`	2.20
8	Ust Ida (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_UstIda_EBA`	2.30
9	Baikal (Bronze Age)`Baikal_BA`	2.34
10	Shamanka (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Shamanka_EBA`	2.35

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Todzin`Todzin`	6.32
2	Tuvinian`Tuvinian`	6.82
3	Mogush`Mogush`	7.34
4	Khamnegan`Khamnegan`	9.61
5	Buryat`Buryat`	10.11
6	Altaian Kizhi`Altaian_Kizhi`	10.22
7	Khakass Kachins`Khakass_Kachins`	10.45
8	Altaian`Altaian`	10.75
9	Kalmyk`Kalmyk`	11.50
10	Mongol`Mongol`	11.68

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

Q1b1b Q-BZ2210 3

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 13

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.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I1526`	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara`	M	2900-2706 calBCE	Ust'-Belaya	Q1b1b Q-BZ2210	C4a1a3
`I20760`	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara`
`I7779`	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara`	M	2900-2700 calBCE	Ust'-Belaya	Q1b1b Q-BZ2210	C4a2a1
`I7780`	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara`	M	2840-2490 calBCE	Ust'-Belaya	Q1b1b Q-BZ2210	C4a1a3
`I7782`	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara`	F	2860-2500 calBCE	Ust'-Belaya		D4j1
`I8296`	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara`	F	2860-2570 calBCE	Ust'-Belaya		F1b1b
`NEO231_noUDG.SG`	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara.SG`
`NEO232_noUDG.SG`	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara.SG`
`I7335` outlier	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara`	M	2570-2460 calBCE	Ust'-Belaya	Q1b1a3 Q-YP1102	C4a1a3
`I7759` outlier	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara`	M	5210-4960 calBCE	Ust'-Belaya	Q1b1b Q-YP4010	F1d
`I8295` outlier	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara_o`	F	2620-2480 calBCE	Ust'-Belaya		C4a'b'c
`I8298` outlier	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara`	F	3790-3690 calBCE	Ust'-Belaya		R1b1
`NEO229_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Russia_UstBelaya_Angara_o.SG`	F	4785-4462 calBCE	Ust'-Belaya		D4b1a2