Ancient population · Bronze Age

Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)

Name: Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria) (Syria_Ebla_EMBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Syria_Ebla_EMBA

Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Syria_Ebla_EMBA), with 8 samples from Syria, dated to c. 2600–1900 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey), SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age) and Alalakh (Middle–Late 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 J1a (2), E1b and T1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H14a, J1b, K1a and T2c.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2600–1900 BCE
Country: Syria
Sampled near: Ebla / Tell Mardikh 35.80, 36.80
Samples: 8
Published in: SkourtaniotiKrauseCell2020
Catalogue: Syria_Ebla_EMBA

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	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	1.36
2	SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age)`SE_Kilis_MBA`	1.52
3	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Alalakh_MLBA`	1.55
4	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	1.58
5	Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)`Turkey_MBA`	1.81
6	Levant Megiddo (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Levant_Megiddo_MLBA`	2.10
7	Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Israel_MLBA`	2.23
8	Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox`Lebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox`	2.24
9	Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)`Levant_Sidon_MBA`	2.27
10	Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician`	2.29

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	2.26
2	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	2.35
3	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	2.41
4	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	2.62
5	Samaritan`Samaritan`	2.89
6	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	3.19
7	Druze`Druze`	3.35
8	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	3.36
9	Iraqi Jew`Iraqi_Jew`	3.54
10	Alawite`Alawite`	3.80

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

E1b1b1b2a1a1a1a1f E-PF6748
J1a2a1a2 J-P58
J1a2a1a2d2b J-ZS2652
T1a1a1b2 T-BY31171

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 8

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
`ETM005`	M	2000-1800 BCE	Ebla / Tell Mardikh	J1a2a1a2 J-P58
`ETM006`	F	2000-1800 BCE	Ebla / Tell Mardikh
`ETM010`	M	2700-2500 BCE	Ebla / Tell Mardikh	E1b1b1b2a1a1a1a1f E-PF6748	J1b1b1
`ETM012`	M	2574-2467 calBCE	Ebla / Tell Mardikh	J1a2a1a2d2b J-ZS2652	T2c1
`ETM014`	F	2000-1800 BCE	Ebla / Tell Mardikh		U3b2a1
`ETM016`	F	2030-1891 calBCE	Ebla / Tell Mardikh		U8b1a2b
`ETM023`	F	2350-2300 BCE	Ebla / Tell Mardikh		H14a
`ETM026`	M	2000-1800 BCE	Ebla / Tell Mardikh	T1a1a1b2 T-BY31171	K1a4