Ancient population · Bronze Age

SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age)

Name: SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age) (SE_Kilis_MBA)
Creator: Genoplot

SE_Kilis_MBA

SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (SE_Kilis_MBA), with 3 samples from Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, dated to c. 1720–1570 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria), Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey) and Turkey (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh, Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta and Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b and G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H (2) and J1b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1720–1570 BCE
Country: Turkey
Origin: Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
Sampled near: Oylum Höyük 36.69, 37.17
Samples: 3
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: SE_Kilis_MBA

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	Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)`Syria_Ebla_EMBA`	1.52
2	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	1.62
3	Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)`Turkey_MBA`	1.85
4	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	1.89
5	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Alalakh_MLBA`	2.15
6	Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAIII`	2.36
7	IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_IA3`	2.39
8	Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox`Lebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox`	2.39
9	Lebanese Christian Maronite`Lebanese_Christian_Maronite`	2.52
10	Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician`	2.57

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	2.34
2	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	2.54
3	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	2.59
4	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	2.87
5	Samaritan`Samaritan`	3.25
6	Druze`Druze`	3.44
7	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	3.47
8	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	3.72
9	Karaite Iraq`Karaite_Iraq`	3.78
10	Alawite`Alawite`	3.85

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

E1b1b1b2a1a1a1a1f1a E-FTA62411
G2a2b G-L30

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

H 2
J1b2

Individuals 3

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
`I14782`	M	1850-1600 BCE	Oylum Höyük	E1b1b1b2a1a1a1a1f1a E-FTA62411	H
`I14785`	M	1700-1450 BCE	Oylum Höyük	G2a2b G-L30	J1b2
`I14789`	F	1867-1625 calBCE	Oylum Höyük		H