Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Turkey (Late Chalcolithic)

Name: Turkey (Late Chalcolithic) (Turkey_LateC)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_LateC

Turkey (Late Chalcolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_LateC), with 1 sample from Turkey, dated to c. 3570 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria), SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age) and Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Samaritan, Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh and Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a.

Period: Chalcolithic
Date: c. 3570 BCE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Tatika 37.54, 41.87
Samples: 1
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Turkey_LateC_o1 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	Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)`Syria_Ebla_EMBA`	2.29
2	SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age)`SE_Kilis_MBA`	2.35
3	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	2.43
4	Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)`Turkey_MBA`	2.53
5	IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_IA3`	2.63
6	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	2.69
7	Levant Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age)`Levant_Ashkelon_LBA`	2.69
8	Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAIII`	2.73
9	Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)`Levant_Sidon_MBA`	2.84
10	Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician`	2.84

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Samaritan`Samaritan`	2.93
2	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	3.17
3	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	3.20
4	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	3.30
5	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	3.46
6	Palestinian Beit Sahour`Palestinian_Beit_Sahour`	3.78
7	Druze`Druze`	4.18
8	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	4.34
9	Karaite Iraq`Karaite_Iraq`	4.42
10	Alawite`Alawite`	4.67

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J2a2 J-Y182822

Individuals 1

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	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA
`I4622` outlier	M	3636-3525 calBCE	Tatika	J2a2 J-Y182822