Ancient population · Iron Age

Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IA

Name: Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IA (Turkey_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_IA

Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IA is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_IA), with 6 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 800–550 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey), Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey) and Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Armenian Urfa, Armenian and Armenian Ararat.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups G2a, J2a and L; its mtDNA haplogroups include H15b, J2b, N1b and U1a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 800–550 BCE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Çavuştepe 38.07, 42.23
Sites: Çavuştepe (3)
Kuriki Höyük (3)
Samples: 6
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Turkey_IA
Turkey_IA_o6 outliers
Turkey_IA_o4_noUDG outliers
Turkey_IA_o5 outliers

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	Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_SoutheastByzantine`	1.34
2	Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_PostMedieval`	1.96
3	Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age)`DinkhaTepe_BIA_A`	2.53
4	Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible`	2.80
5	Mountain Jew`Mountain_Jew`	2.92
6	Turkey (Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)`Turkey_LateC_EBA`	2.97
7	Caucasus lowlands (Late Neolithic, Azerbaijan)`Azerbaijan_Caucasus_lowlands_LN`	2.98
8	SE Sirnak (Bronze Age)`SE_Sirnak_BA`	3.04
9	Turkey (Medieval)`Turkey_Medieval`	3.29
10	Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_LateHellenistic`	3.30

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Armenian Urfa`Armenian_Urfa`	1.12
2	Armenian`Armenian`	1.37
3	Armenian Ararat`Armenian_Ararat`	1.64
4	Armenian Aintab`Armenian_Aintab`	1.65
5	Assyrian`Assyrian`	1.69
6	Georgian Jew`Georgian_Jew`	1.88
7	Assyrian Mardin`Assyrian_Mardin`	1.98
8	Armenian Erzurum`Armenian_Erzurum`	2.03
9	Mountain Jew Dagestan`Mountain_Jew_Dagestan`	2.14
10	Armenian Gesaria`Armenian_Gesaria`	2.21

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

G2a2b1 G-M406
J2a1a1a2a1a2 J-YP879
L L

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 10

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. 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
`I14635`	`Turkey_IA`	F	1000-100 BCE	Kuriki Höyük		U1a1
`I14644`	`Turkey_IA`	F	778-520 calBCE	Kuriki Höyük		J2b1
`I14734`	`Turkey_IA`	M	1000-100 BCE	Kuriki Höyük	L L	U2e1b
`I14765`	`Turkey_IA`	M	850-750 BCE	Çavuştepe	J2a1a1a2a1a2 J-YP879	U3a2a
`I19612`	`Turkey_IA`	M	850-750 BCE	Çavuştepe	G2a2b1 G-M406	H15b
`I20577`	`Turkey_IA`	F	850-750 BCE	Çavuştepe		N1b1a2
`I14733` outlier	`Turkey_IA_o6`	M	537-398 calBCE	Kuriki Höyük	J1a2a1b1 J-Y169631	H29
`I14735` outlier	`Turkey_IA_o6`	F	1000-100 BCE	Kuriki Höyük		U3a'c
`I19613` outlier	`Turkey_IA_o5`	F	850-750 BCE	Çavuştepe		T2a3
`I4029_noUDG` outlier	`Turkey_IA_o4_noUDG`	M	780-544 calBCE	Gordion	J2a1a J-PF5116	H14a