Ancient population · Iron Age
Punic (Iron Age, Tunisia)
Tunisia_Punic
Punic (Iron Age, Tunisia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tunisia_Punic), with 5 samples from Tunisia, dated to c. 600–480 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bivio Roman (Antiquity, Italy), Sardinia 1 (Iron Age, Italy) and Rome Late Antiquity (Antiquity); the nearest living populations are French Corsica, Italian Lazio and Belmonte Jew.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 600–480 BCE
- Country
- Tunisia
- Sampled near
- Kerkouene 36.95, 11.10
- Samples
- 5
- Published in
- MootsPinhasiNatEcolEvol2023
- Catalogue
Tunisia_Punic.SGvariantTunisia_Punic_oAfrica2.SGoutliersTunisia_Punic_oAfrica1.SGoutliers
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 | Bivio Roman (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Bivio_Roman | 2.92 |
| 2 | Sardinia 1 (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_IA_1 | 3.37 |
| 3 | Rome Late Antiquity (Antiquity)Rome_Late_Antiquity | 3.49 |
| 4 | Zadar Roman (Antiquity, Croatia)Croatia_Zadar_Roman | 3.59 |
| 5 | Sisak Pogorelec Roman (Antiquity, Croatia)Croatia_SisakPogorelec_Roman | 3.67 |
| 6 | Trypillia Late (Chalcolithic)Trypillia_Late | 3.72 |
| 7 | Himera 409BCE (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_409BCE | 3.72 |
| 8 | Sardinia Punic 2 (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_2 | 3.74 |
| 9 | Bulgaria (Early Iron Age)Bulgaria_EIA | 3.75 |
| 10 | Lazio Viterbo Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Lazio_Viterbo_Imperial | 3.76 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | French CorsicaFrench_Corsica | 3.29 |
| 2 | Italian LazioItalian_Lazio | 3.57 |
| 3 | Belmonte JewBelmonte_Jew | 3.65 |
| 4 | Sicilian WestSicilian_West | 3.70 |
| 5 | Italian UmbriaItalian_Umbria | 3.85 |
| 6 | Italian MarcheItalian_Marche | 3.95 |
| 7 | Sicilian EastSicilian_East | 4.05 |
| 8 | Italian AbruzzoItalian_Abruzzo | 4.12 |
| 9 | Italian ApuliaItalian_Apulia | 4.16 |
| 10 | Italian TuscanyItalian_Tuscany | 4.21 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 10
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R11749.SG | Tunisia_Punic.SG | F | 750-350 BCE | Kerkouene | |
R11753.SG | Tunisia_Punic.SG | M | 658-407 calBCE | Kerkouene | J2b2a1 J-Z597 |
R11776.SG | Tunisia_Punic.SG | F | 749-407 calBCE | Kerkouene | |
R11780.SG | Tunisia_Punic.SG | F | 750-416 calBCE | Kerkouene | |
R11791.SG | Tunisia_Punic.SG | F | 737-416 calBCE | Kerkouene | |
R11746.SG outlier | Tunisia_Punic_oAfrica2.SG | M | 735-413 calBCE | Kerkouene | R1b1b R-PF6287 |
R11755.SG outlier | Tunisia_Punic_oAfrica2.SG | F | 410-378 calBCE | Kerkouene | |
R11759.SG outlier | Tunisia_Punic_oAfrica1.SG | F | 763-542 calBCE | Kerkouene | |
R11778.SG outlier | Tunisia_Punic_oAfrica2.SG | F | 516-387 calBCE | Kerkouene | |
R11790.SG outlier | Tunisia_Punic_oAfrica2.SG | F | 364-197 calBCE | Kerkouene |