Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Ikiztepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)

Turkey_Ikiztepe_LateC

Ikiztepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_Ikiztepe_LateC), with 4 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 3870–3270 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey), Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic) and Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Greek Central Anatolia, Turkish Trabzon and Armenian Urfa.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2; its mtDNA haplogroups include I5, K1a and U1b.

Date
c. 3870–3270 BCE
Country
Turkey
Sampled near
İkiztepe 41.61, 35.87
Samples
4
Catalogue
Turkey_Ikiztepe_LateC

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
1Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod2.94
2Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic)Arslantepe_LC3.19
3Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_CamlibelTarlasi_LateC3.20
4Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA3.37
5Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic)Camlibel_Tarlasi_LC3.44
6Turkey (Early Bronze Age)Turkey_EBA3.53
7Persian (Iron Age, Turkey)Turkey_Persian3.53
8Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Arslantepe_LateC3.54
9Ikiztepe (Late Chalcolithic)Ikiztepe_LC3.61
10Arslantepe (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_Arslantepe_EBA3.87
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Greek Central AnatoliaGreek_Central_Anatolia4.28
2Turkish TrabzonTurkish_Trabzon4.66
3Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa4.67
4Armenian AintabArmenian_Aintab4.78
5Greek TrabzonGreek_Trabzon4.85
6ArmenianArmenian4.93
7CypriotCypriot5.05
8Armenian GesariaArmenian_Gesaria5.21
9Armenian AraratArmenian_Ararat5.22
10Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes5.40

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

  • J2 J-M410

mtDNA

3 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
IKI012F3371-3106 calBCEİkiztepe
IKI016F3519-3371 calBCEİkiztepeI5
IKI024M3959-3797 calBCEİkiztepeJ2 J-M410U1b1
IKI034F3511-3353 calBCEİkiztepeK1a17