Ancient population · Antiquity

Ksirov Kushan (Antiquity, Tajikistan)

Tajikistan_Ksirov_Kushan

Ksirov Kushan (Antiquity, Tajikistan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tajikistan_Ksirov_Kushan), with 2 samples from Tajikistan, dated to c. 90–10 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Arkhangai MLBAto EIAor Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia), Rabat (Iron Age) and Serkharakat (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Tajik Yaghnobi, Tajik Yagnobi and Pamiri Rushan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1a and R2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H1 and U2e.

Period
Antiquity
Date
c. 90–10 BCE
Country
Tajikistan
Sampled near
Ksirov 37.42, 68.17
Samples
2
Catalogue
Tajikistan_Ksirov_Kushan

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
1Arkhangai MLBAto EIAor Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Arkhangai_MLBAtoEIAorMedieval3.20
2Rabat (Iron Age)IA_Rabat3.31
3Serkharakat (Iron Age)IA_Serkharakat3.94
4Chuy Burana Black Death (Medieval, Kyrgyzstan)Kyrgyzstan_Chuy_Burana_BlackDeath_Medieval4.64
5Kazakhstann Otrar Culture (Late Iron Age)Kazakhstann_OtrarCulture_LIA4.74
6Tajik BadakhshanTajik_Badakhshan5.00
7Turk Kangju possibe (Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Turk_Kangju_possibe5.81
8Xinjiang Tielieketesai 1 (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Tielieketesai_IA_16.06
9Turkmenistan (Iron Age) · TKM_IATKM_IA6.08
10Wusun (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_WusunKazakhstan_Wusun6.21
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Tajik YaghnobiTajik_Yaghnobi2.10
2Tajik YagnobiTajik_Yagnobi2.60
3Pamiri RushanPamiri_Rushan3.66
4Tajik RushanTajik_Rushan3.66
5Tajik ShugnanTajik_Shugnan3.80
6Pamiri ShugnanPamiri_Shugnan3.81
7Tajik Tajikistan KulobTajik_Tajikistan_Kulob4.02
8TajikTajik4.98
9Pamiri BadakhshanPamiri_Badakhshan5.00
10Tajik IshkashimTajik_Ishkashim5.17

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I12292M160 calBCE - 1 calCEKsirovR2a2a R-BY198365U2e1e
I12294M51 calBCE - 61 calCEKsirovR1a1a1 R-M417H1