Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Buyukkaya (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey)

Turkey_Buyukkaya_EC

Buyukkaya (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_Buyukkaya_EC), with 1 sample from Turkey, dated to c. 5570 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Turkey (Chalcolithic), Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic) and Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Cypriot, Greek Dodecanese Rhodes and Greek Dodecanese.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is X2.

Date
c. 5570 BCE
Country
Turkey
Sampled near
Boğazköy-Büyükkaya 40.02, 34.62
Samples
1
Catalogue
Turkey_Buyukkaya_EC

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 (Chalcolithic)Turkey_C3.71
2Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic)Camlibel_Tarlasi_LC3.77
3Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_CamlibelTarlasi_LateC3.81
4Archaic Sub Geometric (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Archaic_SubGeometric3.99
5Aegean Mugla Degirmendere Ancient (Iron Age)Aegean_Mugla_Degirmendere_Anc4.03
6Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA4.23
7Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA4.29
8Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod4.36
9II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_EBA_II4.45
10Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)Ovaoren_EBA4.47
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1CypriotCypriot6.01
2Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes6.16
3Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese6.41
4Greek KosGreek_Kos6.50
5Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew6.75
6Greek Cyclades AmorgosGreek_Cyclades_Amorgos6.92
7Greek Central AnatoliaGreek_Central_Anatolia7.15
8Italian JewItalian_Jew7.30
9Turkish JewTurkish_Jew7.30
10Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian7.39

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 1

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
CBT018F5626-5483 calBCEBoğazköy-BüyükkayaX2