Ancient population · Iron Age

Saka Kazakh steppe (Iron Age)

Name: Saka Kazakh steppe (Iron Age) (Saka_Kazakh_steppe)
Creator: Genoplot

Saka_Kazakh_steppe

Saka Kazakh steppe (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Saka_Kazakh_steppe), with 3 samples from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, dated to about 586 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Central Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Central_Saka, Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan) and Sagly 4 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia); the nearest living populations are Bashkir, Tatar Siberian and Nogai Dobruja.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include A, F1b and U2e.

Period: Iron Age
Date: about 586 BCE
Country: Kazakhstan
Origin: Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Sampled near: Borli 49.49, 74.72
Sites: Borli
Nazar-2
Taldy-2
Samples: 3
Published in: DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
Catalogue: Saka_Kazakh_steppe
Saka_Kazakh_steppe_o1 outliers
Saka_Kazakh_steppe_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
#	Population	Distance
1	Central Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Central_Saka`Kazakhstan_Central_Saka`	0.66
2	Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Tasmola_EIA`	1.22
3	Sagly 4 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_EIA_Sagly_4`	1.53
4	Tasmola (Iron Age)`Tasmola_IA`	1.64
5	Xinjiang Dongtalede (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Dongtalede_IA`	2.08
6	Berel (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Berel_IA`	2.14
7	Altai (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Altai_MLBA`	2.18
8	Altai (Iron Age)`Altai_IA`	2.37
9	Korgantas 3 (Iron Age, Kyrgyzstan)`Kyrgyzstan_Korgantas_IA_3`	2.85
10	Xinjiang Junmachanyilian (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Junmachanyilian_IA`	2.89

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bashkir`Bashkir`	4.41
2	Tatar Siberian`Tatar_Siberian`	4.71
3	Nogai Dobruja`Nogai_Dobruja`	7.29
4	Nogai`Nogai`	7.51
5	Uzbek`Uzbek`	7.95
6	Hazara Afghanistan`Hazara_Afghanistan`	9.00
7	Tatar Siberian Zabolotniye`Tatar_Siberian_Zabolotniye`	9.05
8	Karakalpak`Karakalpak`	9.27
9	Tatar Crimean steppe`Tatar_Crimean_steppe`	9.38
10	Uygur`Uygur`	9.53

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1a1a1b2a2a3b R-YP1548 2

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 8

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
`DA11`	`Saka_Kazakh_steppe`	F	777-423 calBCE	Borli		F1b1
`DA13`	`Saka_Kazakh_steppe`	M	767-422 calBCE	Taldy-2	R1a1a1b2a2a3b R-YP1548	A
`DA16`	`Saka_Kazakh_steppe`	M	756-416 calBCE	Nazar-2	R1a1a1b2a2a3b R-YP1455	U2e1'2'3
`DA10` outlier	`Saka_Kazakh_steppe`	F	800-400 BCE	Sjartas		C4a1a
`DA14` outlier	`Saka_Kazakh_steppe`	F	767-419 calBCE	Karashoky-1		H101
`DA15` outlier	`Saka_Kazakh_steppe`	M	769-418 calBCE	Karashoky-6	R1a1a R-M198	C4d
`DA17` outlier	`Saka_Kazakh_steppe_o1`	M	810-572 calBCE	Birlik	R1a1a1b2a2 R-Z2124	H10
`DA19` outlier	`Saka_Kazakh_steppe_o2`	M	810-542 calBCE	Karaterekh	E1b1b1b2a1 E-M123	U7a4