Ancient population · Iron Age

Saka Tian Shan (Iron Age) · Saka_TianShan_IA

Saka_TianShan_IA

Saka Tian Shan (Iron Age) · Saka_TianShan_IA is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Saka_TianShan_IA), with 1 sample from Almaty, Kazakhstan, from the Iron Age.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Uvs EIAXiongnu Late Medival (Iron Age, Mongolia), Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) and Xinjiang Junmachanyilian (Iron Age, China); the nearest living populations are Bashkir, Tatar Siberian and Uzbek.

Period
Iron Age
Country
Kazakhstan
Origin
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Samples
1
Catalogue
Saka_TianShan_IA

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
1Uvs EIAXiongnu Late Medival (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Uvs_EIAXiongnuLateMedival2.92
2Saka (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Saka_IA2.96
3Xinjiang Junmachanyilian (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Junmachanyilian_IA2.99
4Xinjiang Songshugou (Early Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_EIA3.03
5Sagly 4 (Early Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_EIA_Sagly_43.39
6Khovd (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khovd_MLBA3.42
7Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Tasmola_EIA3.48
8Tasmola (Iron Age)Tasmola_IA3.56
9Tian Shan Hun (Medieval, Kyrgyzstan)Kyrgyzstan_TianShan_Hun3.59
10Xinjiang Chaganguole (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Chaganguole_IA3.64
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1BashkirBashkir5.34
2Tatar SiberianTatar_Siberian6.95
3UzbekUzbek8.40
4Tatar Crimean steppeTatar_Crimean_steppe8.95
5Nogai DobrujaNogai_Dobruja8.96
6NogaiNogai9.75
7Hazara AfghanistanHazara_Afghanistan10.35
8Tatar LipkaTatar_Lipka10.50
9Turkmen UzbekistanTurkmen_Uzbekistan10.59
10Tatar Siberian ZabolotniyeTatar_Siberian_Zabolotniye10.69

Individuals 1

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

SampleOrigin
CSP005Almaty, Kazakhstan