Ancient population · Neolithic

Kumtepe (Neolithic, Turkey)

Name: Kumtepe (Neolithic, Turkey) (Turkey_Kumtepe_N)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_Kumtepe_N

Kumtepe (Neolithic, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_Kumtepe_N), with 2 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 4600–3660 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kumtepe low res (Neolithic), Aegean Mugla Capalibag (Medieval) and Low res (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Greek Cyclades Tinos, Turkish Rumeli and Turkish Dodecanese.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is H2a.

Period: Neolithic
Date: c. 4600–3660 BCE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Kumtepe 39.95, 26.20
Samples: 2
Published in: OmrakGötherströmCurrBiol2016
Catalogue: Turkey_Kumtepe_N_lc.SG variant
Turkey_Kumtepe_N.SG 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	Kumtepe low res (Neolithic)`Kumtepe_N_low_res`	14.69
2	Aegean Mugla Capalibag (Medieval)`Aegean_Mugla_Capalibag_MA`	21.12
3	Low res (Iron Age)`IA_low_res`	21.23
4	Ostrogothic Crimea ACD (Antiquity)`Ostrogothic_Crimea_ACD`	21.77
5	Hungary (Bronze Age)`Hungary_BA`	21.80
6	Picenum Imperial (Antiquity)`Picenum_Imperial`	21.81
7	Glinoe Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova)`Moldova_Glinoe_Scythian`	21.91
8	Erfurt2 (Medieval)`MA_Erfurt2`	21.98
9	Tiszaregion Early Avar (Medieval, Hungary)`Hungary_Tiszaregion_EAvar`	21.99
10	Scythian (Iron Age, Moldova)`Scythian_MDA`	22.00

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Greek Cyclades Tinos`Greek_Cyclades_Tinos`	21.16
2	Turkish Rumeli`Turkish_Rumeli`	21.36
3	Turkish Dodecanese`Turkish_Dodecanese`	21.39
4	Turkish Chitak`Turkish_Chitak`	21.41
5	Turkish Canakkale Europe`Turkish_Canakkale_Europe`	21.42
6	Turkish Lesbos`Turkish_Lesbos`	21.48
7	Ashkenazi Latvia`Ashkenazi_Latvia`	21.68
8	Patriyot West Macedonia`Patriyot_West_Macedonia`	21.79
9	Greek Arcadia`Greek_Arcadia`	21.81
10	Greek Crete Chania`Greek_Crete_Chania`	21.81

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 2

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	mtDNA
`kum4_noUDG.SG`	`Turkey_Kumtepe_N_lc.SG`	F	4900-4300 BCE	Kumtepe
`kum6_noUDG.SG`	`Turkey_Kumtepe_N.SG`	F	3773-3533 calBCE	Kumtepe	H2a