Ancient population · Bronze Age
Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)
Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod
Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod), with 2 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 1870 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age), II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey) and Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Cypriot, Greek Central Anatolia and Greek Dodecanese Rhodes.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J2b and U1a.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1870 BCE
- Country
- Turkey
- Sampled near
- Kalehöyük 39.35, 33.79
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- DamgaardWillerslevScience2018
- Catalogue
Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod.SGvariant
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 | Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA | 1.28 |
| 2 | II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_EBA_II | 2.01 |
| 3 | Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_CamlibelTarlasi_LateC | 2.03 |
| 4 | Turkey (Early Bronze Age)Turkey_EBA | 2.12 |
| 5 | Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)Ovaoren_EBA | 2.18 |
| 6 | Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic)Camlibel_Tarlasi_LC | 2.35 |
| 7 | Persian (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Persian | 2.36 |
| 8 | Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Arslantepe_LateC | 2.51 |
| 9 | Old Hittite Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_OldHittitePeriod | 2.57 |
| 10 | Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic)C_Gordion_Anc | 2.61 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CypriotCypriot | 3.74 |
| 2 | Greek Central AnatoliaGreek_Central_Anatolia | 4.01 |
| 3 | Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes | 4.42 |
| 4 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 4.79 |
| 5 | Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese | 4.85 |
| 6 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 4.87 |
| 7 | Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa | 4.91 |
| 8 | DruzeDruze | 4.94 |
| 9 | Greek KosGreek_Kos | 5.01 |
| 10 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 5.03 |
Haplogroups
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MA2205_noUDG.SG | M | 2000-1750 BCE | Kalehöyük | J2a1a1a2b2a2b2b J-Y23174 | J2b1 |
MA2206_noUDG.SG | F | 2000-1750 BCE | Kalehöyük | U1a |