Ancient population · Bronze Age

Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)

Name: Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey) (Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA

Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA), with 23 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 1890–1390 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age), Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey) and Turkey (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh, Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta and Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a (5), J2a (2) and H; its mtDNA haplogroups include H6a (2), K1a (2), H and H13a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1890–1390 BCE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Atchana-Alalakh 36.24, 36.38
Samples: 23
Published in: SkourtaniotiKrauseCell2020
Catalogue: Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA
Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA_o 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	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Alalakh_MLBA`	1.18
2	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	1.28
3	Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)`Turkey_MBA`	1.50
4	Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)`Syria_Ebla_EMBA`	1.58
5	Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox`Lebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox`	1.81
6	Lebanese Christian Maronite`Lebanese_Christian_Maronite`	1.89
7	SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age)`SE_Kilis_MBA`	1.89
8	Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician`	2.35
9	Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician`	2.41
10	Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAIII`	2.43

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	1.83
2	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	1.95
3	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	2.24
4	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	2.28
5	Druze`Druze`	2.73
6	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	2.97
7	Samaritan`Samaritan`	3.17
8	Iraqi Jew`Iraqi_Jew`	3.23
9	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	3.26
10	Alawite`Alawite`	3.39

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

10 men with a call

J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331 2
J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Z2317 2
H H-Y19966
J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4c J-FGC97306
J2a1a1a2b2 J-Y6240
J2a1a1a2b2a3b J-Y3020
J2b2b1 J-Y31143
L L-L595

mtDNA

20 individuals with a call

Individuals 24

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	mtDNA
`ALA001_d`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	M	1498-1322 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331
`ALA002`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	M	1499-1398 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Z2317	N1a3a2
`ALA004`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	M	1896-1746 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	J2a1a1a2b2 J-Y6240	X2e2a
`ALA008`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	M	1881-1698 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	H H-Y19966	H6a1b
`ALA011`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	M	1743-1614 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	J2a1a1a2b2a3b J-Y3020	X2d
`ALA013`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1880-1690 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		H47
`ALA015`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`
`ALA016`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1614-1504 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		I2
`ALA017`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1611-1456 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		U1a1d
`ALA018`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	M	1499-1323 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c4c J-FGC97306	HV1b3b
`ALA020`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1504-1397 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		H6a
`ALA023`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1928-1751 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		N1b1a
`ALA025`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1879-1641 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		H
`ALA026`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	M	1746-1616 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Z1884	T1a
`ALA028`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1878-1636 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		K1a17
`ALA029`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1881-1693 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		T2
`ALA030`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1610-1448 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		H5a1j
`ALA034`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1876-1635 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		H13a2b2
`ALA035`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	M	1954-1772 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	J1a2a1a2d2b J-Z2331	H20a
`ALA037`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1882-1700 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		W3b
`ALA039`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	F	1491-1301 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		K1a
`ALA084`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	M	2012-1775 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	L L-L595
`ALA095`	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	M	1922-1750 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh	J2b2b1 J-Y31143	HV
`ALA019` outlier	`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA_o`	F	1616-1510 calBCE	Atchana-Alalakh		H2a3