Ancient population · Bronze Age

Turkey (Early Bronze Age)

Name: Turkey (Early Bronze Age) (Turkey_EBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_EBA

Turkey (Early Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_EBA), with 21 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 3220–2220 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J1a (2), T1a (2) and E1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H (2), K1a (2), T2c (2) and U3b (2).

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 3220–2220 BCE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Devret-Höyük 38.27, 35.21
Sites: Devret-Höyük (5)
Harmanören-Göndürle-Höyük (5)
Oylum Höyük (4)
Tatika (4)
Yassıtepe (2)
and 1 more
Samples: 21
Published in: LazaridisReichNature2025
LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Turkey_EBA
Turkey_EBA_noUDG variant

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	Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)`Turkey_Arslantepe_LateC`	1.27
2	Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod`	2.12
3	Arslantepe (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Arslantepe_EBA`	2.14
4	Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)`Turkey_CamlibelTarlasi_LateC`	2.17
5	II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_EBA_II`	2.18
6	Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA`	2.20
7	Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)`Ovaoren_EBA`	2.23
8	Persian (Iron Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Persian`	2.47
9	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	2.59
10	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	2.68

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Cypriot`Cypriot`	3.02
2	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	3.20
3	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	3.32
4	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	3.45
5	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	3.52
6	Druze`Druze`	3.62
7	Greek Central Anatolia`Greek_Central_Anatolia`	3.81
8	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	3.87
9	Armenian Urfa`Armenian_Urfa`	4.09
10	Greek Dodecanese Rhodes`Greek_Dodecanese_Rhodes`	4.15

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

6 men with a call

E1b1b1b2a1a E-M34
J1a2a1a2 J-P58
J1a2b2 J-Z18463
R1b R-Y244169
T1a1a T-L208
T1a2 T-L131

mtDNA

18 individuals with a call

Individuals 21

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	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I14649_in.preparation`	`Turkey_EBA`	M	2308-2129 calBCE	Tilbeşar Höyük	R1b R-Y244169	U3c
`I14792`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	2454-2201 calBCE	Oylum Höyük		N1a1a3
`I14794`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	3000-2000 BCE	Oylum Höyük		K1a
`I14797`	`Turkey_EBA`	M	3000-2000 BCE	Oylum Höyük	T1a1a T-L208	N2a
`I14798`	`Turkey_EBA`	M	3000-2000 BCE	Oylum Höyük	J1a2a1a2 J-P58	U3b1a
`I2495`	`Turkey_EBA`	M	2560-2295 calBCE	Harmanören-Göndürle-Höyük	J1a2b2 J-Z18463	H
`I2495_noUDG`	`Turkey_EBA_noUDG`	M	2560-2295 calBCE	Harmanören-Göndürle-Höyük	J1a2b2 J-Z18463	H
`I2499`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	2836-2468 calBCE	Harmanören-Göndürle-Höyük		K1a2
`I2683`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	2621-2467 calBCE	Harmanören-Göndürle-Höyük		T2b
`I2683_noUDG`	`Turkey_EBA_noUDG`	F	2621-2467 calBCE	Harmanören-Göndürle-Höyük		T2b
`I4481`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	2881-2633 calBCE	Tatika		R1b1
`I4614`	`Turkey_EBA`	M	3093-2920 calBCE	Tatika	E1b1b1b2a1a E-M34	T2c1c1
`I4615`	`Turkey_EBA`	M	3263-2925 calBCE	Tatika	T1a2 T-L131	N1
`I4619`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	2859-2504 calBCE	Tatika		U3b3
`I5733`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	2885-2674 calBCE	Yassıtepe		H
`I5735`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	3100-2850 BCE	Yassıtepe		I5c1
`I5740`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	2851-2506 calBCE	Devret-Höyük		K1b1c
`I5741`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	3340-3096 calBCE	Devret-Höyük		T2c1a
`I5742`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	3092-2915 calBCE	Devret-Höyük		U2d
`I5743`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	3081-2907 calBCE	Devret-Höyük		W3a1
`I5744`	`Turkey_EBA`	F	3000-2500 BCE	Devret-Höyük