Ancient population · Medieval
Tell Qarassa Umayyad (Medieval, Syria)
Syria_TellQarassa_Umayyad
Tell Qarassa Umayyad (Medieval, Syria) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Syria_TellQarassa_Umayyad), with 2 samples from Syria, dated to c. 720 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Jordan (Early Bronze Age), Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan) and Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt); the nearest living populations are Yemenite Mahra, Sudan Arab Rashaayda and Saudi.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J2a and R0a.
- Period
- Medieval
- Date
- c. 720 CE
- Country
- Syria
- Sampled near
- TellQarassa 36.83, 41.46
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- SrigyanValdioseraCommunBiol2022
- Catalogue
Syria_TellQarassa_Umayyad
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jordan (Early Bronze Age)Jordan_EBA | 6.64 |
| 2 | Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan)Jordan_Late_PPNB | 7.18 |
| 3 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 7.66 |
| 4 | Israel (Chalcolithic)Israel_C | 8.03 |
| 5 | Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian | 8.11 |
| 6 | Hellenistic (Antiquity)Hellenistic | 8.31 |
| 7 | IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)Israel_IBA | 8.34 |
| 8 | Levant (Chalcolithic, Israel)Levant_ISR_C | 8.70 |
| 9 | PPNC (Neolithic, Jordan)Jordan_PPNC | 9.56 |
| 10 | Natufian (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel)Israel_Natufian | 9.61 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yemenite MahraYemenite_Mahra | 3.94 |
| 2 | Sudan Arab RashaaydaSudan_Arab_Rashaayda | 4.06 |
| 3 | SaudiSaudi | 4.42 |
| 4 | Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf | 4.65 |
| 5 | Bedouin BBedouinB | 4.68 |
| 6 | Saudi NajdSaudi_Najd | 4.76 |
| 7 | Yemenite JewYemenite_Jew | 4.90 |
| 8 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 5.14 |
| 9 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 5.45 |
| 10 | Yemenite Al BaydaYemenite_Al_Bayda | 5.94 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
syr005 | M | 666-768 calCE | TellQarassa | J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4d | J2a2a1a1 |
syr013 | F | 665-766 calCE | TellQarassa | R0a2 |