Ancient population · Medieval

Tell Masaikh (Medieval, Syria)

Name: Tell Masaikh (Medieval, Syria) (Syria_TellMasaikh_Medieval)
Creator: Genoplot

Syria_TellMasaikh_Medieval

Tell Masaikh (Medieval, Syria) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Syria_TellMasaikh_Medieval), with 1 sample from Syria, dated to c. 740 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age), Lebanese Muslim Shia and Mountain Jew; the nearest living populations are Iranian Jew, Iraqi and Kurdish Jew.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 740 CE
Country: Syria
Sampled near: Tell Masaikh 34.97, 40.56
Samples: 1
Published in: AntonioPritchardeLife2024
Catalogue: Syria_TellMasaikh_Medieval.SG variant
Syria_TellMasaikh_Medieval_oAfrica.SG outliers

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	Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age)`DinkhaTepe_BIA_A`	4.43
2	Lebanese Muslim Shia`Lebanese_Muslim_Shia`	4.45
3	Mountain Jew`Mountain_Jew`	4.61
4	Hasanlu 2 (Late Bronze Age, Iran)`Iran_Hasanlu_LBA_2`	4.74
5	Dinkha Tepe 1 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran)`Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1`	4.75
6	Hasanlu B (Late Bronze Age)`Hasanlu_LBA_B`	4.82
7	Roman Byzantine 3 (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_RomanByzantine_3`	4.92
8	Lebanese Christian Maronite`Lebanese_Christian_Maronite`	4.94
9	Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_SoutheastByzantine`	4.96
10	Nemrik9 (Late Bronze Age)`Nemrik9_LBA`	5.04

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Iranian Jew`Iranian_Jew`	3.64
2	Iraqi`Iraqi`	3.71
3	Kurdish Jew`Kurdish_Jew`	3.87
4	Mountain Jew Azerbaijan`Mountain_Jew_Azerbaijan`	3.90
5	Mountain Jew Dagestan`Mountain_Jew_Dagestan`	3.93
6	Iraqi Arab West`Iraqi_Arab_West`	3.95
7	Syrian Hama`Syrian_Hama`	4.09
8	Iraqi Jew`Iraqi_Jew`	4.20
9	Chaldean Iraq`Chaldean_Iraq`	4.28
10	Mountain Jew Chechnya`Mountain_Jew_Chechnya`	4.29

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Z2317

Individuals 2

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.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA
`R3359.SG`	`Syria_TellMasaikh_Medieval.SG`	M	680-827 calCE	Tell Masaikh	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Z2317
`R3361.SG` outlier	`Syria_TellMasaikh_Medieval_oAfrica.SG`	F	1176-1264 calCE	Tell Masaikh