Ancient population · Bronze Age

Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)

Turkey_Arslantepe_LateC

Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_Arslantepe_LateC), with 8 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 3300–3210 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2a (3), E1b and G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a, N1a, N1b and T2c.

Date
c. 3300–3210 BCE
Country
Turkey
Sampled near
Arslantepe 38.38, 38.36
Samples
8
Catalogue
Turkey_Arslantepe_LateC

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
1Turkey (Early Bronze Age)Turkey_EBA1.27
2Arslantepe (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_Arslantepe_EBA1.63
3Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic)Arslantepe_LC2.20
4Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod2.51
5II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_EBA_II2.59
6Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)Ovaoren_EBA2.63
7Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_CamlibelTarlasi_LateC2.63
8Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA2.67
9Persian (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Persian2.76
10Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA2.76
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh3.57
2Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta3.67
3CypriotCypriot3.71
4Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian3.79
5Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa3.83
6Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura3.86
7DruzeDruze3.87
8Armenian AintabArmenian_Aintab4.02
9Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze4.14
10Greek Central AnatoliaGreek_Central_Anatolia4.17

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

6 men with a call

mtDNA

7 individuals with a call

Individuals 15

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
ART012F3340-3032 calBCEArslantepeN1a1a1a
ART014M3491-3108 calBCEArslantepeG2a2b1 G-M3317X2i
ART015M3482-3104 calBCEArslantepeE1b1b1b2a1a1a1a1f E-Y6720U1a1d
ART017M3357-3101 calBCEArslantepeJ2a1a1a2b2a2b2 J-Y15913T2c1
ART020_dM3366-3102 calBCEArslantepeJ2a1a1a2b1b J-M319
ART023M3487-3105 calBCEArslantepeJ2a1a J-L26U3b1
ART026F3347-3092 calBCEArslantepeK1a8b
ART032M3486-3111 calBCEArslantepeH H-Y277312N1b1a2
ART005 outlierF3772-3646 calBCEArslantepeJ1c
ART018 outlierM3491-3109 calBCEArslantepeJ1a2b1b2 J-CTS1460H14a
ART019 outlierM3508-3354 calBCEArslantepeJ2a1a1a2 J-PF5119K1a3
ART022 outlierM3641-3191 calBCEArslantepeJ2a1a1a2b2a3b J-Y3020J1c
ART027_d outlierM3369-3103 calBCEArslantepeG2a2b1 G-M3317
ART038 outlierM3365-3102 calBCEArslantepeR1b1a2a R-CTS6460K1a17a
ART042 outlierM3946-3659 calBCEArslantepeH H-Y277312T1b