Ancient population · Bronze Age

Shahr I Sokhta BA2 (Bronze Age)

Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA2

Shahr I Sokhta BA2 (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA2), with 3 samples from Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran, dated to about 2550 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Indus P (Bronze Age), Shahr ISokhta BA2 (Bronze Age, Iran) and Katelai (Late Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Toda, Gujarati and Maniyani.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup H1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include W3a (2) and M30b.

Date
about 2550 BCE
Country
Iran
Origin
Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran
Sampled near
Shahr-i Sokhta 30.65, 61.40
Samples
3
Catalogue
Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA2

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
1Indus P (Bronze Age)Indus_P0.80
2Shahr ISokhta BA2 (Bronze Age, Iran)Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA21.98
3Katelai (Late Bronze Age)Katelai_LBA5.14
4Baniya Chettiar KeralaBaniya_Chettiar_Kerala5.39
5Shahr I Sokhta BA3 (Bronze Age)Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA35.46
6Roopkund A (Medieval, India)India_RoopkundA5.76
7Aligrama (Iron Age, Pakistan)Pakistan_Aligrama_IA5.91
8Telugu GBRTelugu_GBR6.04
9Butkara (Historical, Pakistan)Pakistan_Butkara_H6.88
10Butkara (Historical)Butkara_H6.89
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1TodaToda3.39
2GujaratiGujarati4.35
3ManiyaniManiyani4.46
4NasraniNasrani4.62
5Poduval Kerala NorthPoduval_Kerala_North4.65
6NairNair4.65
7KnanayaKnanaya4.69
8Konkani Christian AKonkani_Christian_A4.83
9KammaKamma4.87
10Konkani CatholicKonkani_Catholic4.89

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I11456F2600-2500 BCEShahr-i SokhtaW3a1b
I11459M2874-2630 calBCEShahr-i SokhtaH1a1a H-M82W3a1
I11466F2500-2000 BCEShahr-i SokhtaM30b
I8728 outlierM2600-2500 BCEShahr-i SokhtaJ2a1a1b1a1a J-Z6082R7