Ancient population · Bronze Age

Arslantepe (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)

Name: Arslantepe (Early Bronze Age, Turkey) (Turkey_Arslantepe_EBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_Arslantepe_EBA

Arslantepe (Early Bronze Age, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_Arslantepe_EBA), with 3 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 2690–2600 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey), Turkey (Early Bronze Age) and Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic); the nearest living populations are Armenian Urfa, Armenian Aintab and Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a, T2c and U8b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2690–2600 BCE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Arslantepe 38.38, 38.36
Samples: 3
Published in: SkourtaniotiKrauseCell2020
Catalogue: Turkey_Arslantepe_EBA

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	Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)`Turkey_Arslantepe_LateC`	1.63
2	Turkey (Early Bronze Age)`Turkey_EBA`	2.14
3	Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic)`Arslantepe_LC`	2.65
4	Persian (Iron Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Persian`	2.75
5	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	2.84
6	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	2.91
7	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Alalakh_MLBA`	3.07
8	Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)`Turkey_MBA`	3.12
9	Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)`Turkey_CamlibelTarlasi_LateC`	3.20
10	Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod`	3.20

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Armenian Urfa`Armenian_Urfa`	3.51
2	Armenian Aintab`Armenian_Aintab`	3.74
3	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	3.85
4	Armenian`Armenian`	3.98
5	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	4.09
6	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	4.29
7	Greek Central Anatolia`Greek_Central_Anatolia`	4.33
8	Druze`Druze`	4.35
9	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	4.38
10	Iraqi Jew`Iraqi_Jew`	4.47

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J2a1a1a2b2a3b1a1b J-Y17946

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

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	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`ART009`	F	2838-2495 calBCE	Arslantepe		K1a28
`ART010`	F	2857-2501 calBCE	Arslantepe		U8b1a1
`ART011`	M	2860-2506 calBCE	Arslantepe	J2a1a1a2b2a3b1a1b J-Y17946	T2c1
`ART001` outlier	M	2469-2298 calBCE	Arslantepe	J2a1a1a2b2a1b1b J-Z6264	H14b3