Ancient population · Medieval

SE Gaziantep Byzantine (Medieval)

Name: SE Gaziantep Byzantine (Medieval) (SE_Gaziantep_Byz)
Creator: Genoplot

SE_Gaziantep_Byz

SE Gaziantep Byzantine (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (SE_Gaziantep_Byz), with 1 sample from Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, dated to c. 1200 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Beniamin Artaxiad Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia), Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia) and Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Georgian Meskheti, Armenian Gurin and Armenian Aintab.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is U4b.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 1200 CE
Country: Turkey
Origin: Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
Sampled near: Tilbeşar Höyük 36.87, 37.54
Samples: 1
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: SE_Gaziantep_Byz

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	Beniamin Artaxiad Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Artaxiad_Roman_possible`	2.58
2	Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian`	2.78
3	Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_SoutheastByzantine`	3.62
4	Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IA`Turkey_IA`	3.72
5	Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic)`Arslantepe_LC`	3.75
6	Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible`	3.88
7	Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_PostMedieval`	4.07
8	Caucasus lowlands (Late Neolithic, Azerbaijan)`Azerbaijan_Caucasus_lowlands_LN`	4.10
9	Beniamin Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Hellenistic`	4.14
10	Armenia (Early Medieval)`Armenia_EarlyMedieval`	4.25

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Georgian Meskheti`Georgian_Meskheti`	2.90
2	Armenian Gurin`Armenian_Gurin`	2.91
3	Armenian Aintab`Armenian_Aintab`	3.03
4	Armenian`Armenian`	3.31
5	Turkish Trabzon`Turkish_Trabzon`	3.36
6	Armenian Hemsheni`Armenian_Hemsheni`	3.54
7	Greek Trabzon`Greek_Trabzon`	3.58
8	Armenian Ararat`Armenian_Ararat`	3.62
9	Armenian Urfa`Armenian_Urfa`	3.65
10	Armenian Erzurum`Armenian_Erzurum`	3.70

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

G2a2b2a1a1a1b2 G-PH311

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

U4b3

Individuals 1

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I14650`	M	1100-1300 CE	Tilbeşar Höyük	G2a2b2a1a1a1b2 G-PH311	U4b3