Ancient population · Bronze Age

Sarazm (Chalcolithic, Tajikistan)

Tajikistan_C_Sarazm

Sarazm (Chalcolithic, Tajikistan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tajikistan_C_Sarazm), with 2 samples from Tajikistan, dated to c. 3580–3500 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Geoksyur (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan), Namazga Tepe En (Chalcolithic) and Namazga (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan); the nearest living populations are Balochi, Balochi Pakistan and Brahui.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include J1d and W6.

Date
c. 3580–3500 BCE
Country
Tajikistan
Sampled near
Sarazm 39.51, 67.46
Samples
2
Catalogue
Tajikistan_C_Sarazm

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
1Geoksyur (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_Geoksyur4.38
2Namazga Tepe En (Chalcolithic)Namazga_Tepe_En5.27
3Namazga (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_Namazga5.29
4Geoksyur (Neolithic)Geoksyur_N5.53
5Shahr ISokhta BA1 (Bronze Age, Iran)Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA15.88
6Dzharkutan 1 (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Dzharkutan_BA_16.11
7Gonur 1 (Bronze Age, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_Gonur_BA_16.22
8Parkhai (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_Parkhai6.35
9Tepe Anau (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_TepeAnau6.56
10Parkhai (Early Bronze Age, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_EBA_Parkhai6.81
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1BalochiBalochi9.51
2Balochi PakistanBalochi_Pakistan9.51
3BrahuiBrahui9.65
4KalashKalash9.77
5Balochi IranBalochi_Iran9.98
6MakraniMakrani10.42
7Pashtun AfghanistanPashtun_Afghanistan10.63
8Pashtun Afghanistan PaktiaPashtun_Afghanistan_Paktia10.98
9Pashtun Pakistan Khattak NowsheraPashtun_Pakistan_Khattak_Nowshera11.01
10Pashtun Pakistan BettaniPashtun_Pakistan_Bettani11.27

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
I4290F3700-3300 BCESarazmW6
I4910F3634-3522 calBCESarazmJ1d