Ancient population · Medieval

Early Byzantine 2 (Medieval, Turkey)

Name: Early Byzantine 2 (Medieval, Turkey) (Turkey_EarlyByzantine_2)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_EarlyByzantine_2

Early Byzantine 2 (Medieval, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_EarlyByzantine_2), with 6 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 600 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Isola Sacra Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy), Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey) and Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Cypriot, Greek Dodecanese Rhodes and Greek Kos.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b (2), J2a (2) and R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a (2), HV0a, N1b and U2e.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 600 CE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Samantaş 37.34, 28.04
Samples: 6
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Turkey_EarlyByzantine_2

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	Isola Sacra Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_IsolaSacra_RomanImperial`	1.18
2	Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_Byzantine`	1.38
3	Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey)`Turkey_Hellenistic`	1.90
4	Rome Imperial (Antiquity)`Rome_Imperial`	1.98
5	Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_Imperial`	2.00
6	Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey)`Turkey_Roman_5`	2.15
7	Aegean Mugla Stratonikeia Byzantine (Medieval)`Aegean_Mugla_Stratonikeia_Byz`	2.16
8	Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic)`C_Gordion_Anc`	2.26
9	West Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_WestByzantine`	2.44
10	Roman 4 (Antiquity, Turkey)`Turkey_Roman_4`	2.45

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Cypriot`Cypriot`	1.71
2	Greek Dodecanese Rhodes`Greek_Dodecanese_Rhodes`	1.98
3	Greek Kos`Greek_Kos`	2.04
4	Greek Dodecanese`Greek_Dodecanese`	2.08
5	Romaniote Jew`Romaniote_Jew`	2.79
6	Greek Cyclades Amorgos`Greek_Cyclades_Amorgos`	2.98
7	Turkish Jew`Turkish_Jew`	3.31
8	Greek Crete`Greek_Crete`	3.35
9	Italian Jew`Italian_Jew`	3.45
10	Greek Central Anatolia`Greek_Central_Anatolia`	3.46

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

5 men with a call

E1b1b1a1a2 J-PF2254 2
J2a1a1a2b2 J-Z6267
J2a1a4b J-Z40002
R1b1a1b2a2 R-FT61494

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 6

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
`I20259`	M	450-750 CE	Samantaş	J2a1a4b J-Z40002	N1b1a8
`I20260`	F	450-750 CE	Samantaş		U2e1a1
`I20261`	M	450-750 CE	Samantaş	E1b1b1a1a2 J-PF2254	K1a
`I20265`	M	450-750 CE	Samantaş	E1b1b1a1a2 J-PF2254	K1a4c
`I20266`	M	450-750 CE	Samantaş	R1b1a1b2a2 R-FT61494	W6
`I20320`	M	450-750 CE	Samantaş	J2a1a1a2b2 J-Z6267	HV0a