Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Turkey (Chalcolithic)

Turkey_C

Turkey (Chalcolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_C), with 4 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 4500–3510 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Old Hittite Period (Bronze Age, Turkey), Archaic Sub Geometric (Iron Age, Turkey) and Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Greek Dodecanese Rhodes, Cypriot and Greek Dodecanese.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups H and J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H13a, J1d, K1a and U3b.

Date
c. 4500–3510 BCE
Country
Turkey
Sampled near
Ilıpınar 40.44, 29.37
Sites
Ilıpınar (3)
Barcın-Höyük
Samples
4
Catalogue
Turkey_C

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
1Old Hittite Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_OldHittitePeriod2.00
2Archaic Sub Geometric (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Archaic_SubGeometric2.05
3Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA2.05
4Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Roman_52.06
5West Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_WestByzantine2.23
6II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_EBA_II2.48
7Aegean Mugla Degirmendere Ancient (Iron Age)Aegean_Mugla_Degirmendere_Anc2.57
8Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)Ovaoren_EBA2.58
9Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic)C_Gordion_Anc2.62
10Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Hellenistic2.63
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes3.30
2CypriotCypriot3.49
3Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese3.65
4Greek KosGreek_Kos3.91
5Greek Central AnatoliaGreek_Central_Anatolia4.25
6Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew4.57
7Greek Cyclades AmorgosGreek_Cyclades_Amorgos4.68
8Greek CreteGreek_Crete5.02
9Greek Crete LasithiGreek_Crete_Lasithi5.03
10Greek Deep ManiGreek_Deep_Mani5.06

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I10542M3630-3377 calBCEIlıpınarJ2a1a1a2a1a2 J-BY186473H13a1
I10545M5000-4000 BCEIlıpınarH H-Y19966U3b1
I10547F5000-4000 BCEIlıpınarJ1d2
I1584F3946-3660 calBCEBarcın-HöyükK1a17