Ancient population · Bronze Age

Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)

Name: Turkey (Middle Bronze Age) (Turkey_MBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_MBA

Turkey (Middle Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_MBA), with 6 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 2500–1590 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b, J1a and T1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1b (2), K1a (2), H and U9b.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2500–1590 BCE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Oylum Höyük 36.69, 37.17
Samples: 6
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Turkey_MBA
Turkey_MBA_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	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	1.43
2	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	1.50
3	Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)`Syria_Ebla_EMBA`	1.81
4	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Alalakh_MLBA`	1.84
5	SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age)`SE_Kilis_MBA`	1.85
6	Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox`Lebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox`	2.35
7	Lebanese Christian Maronite`Lebanese_Christian_Maronite`	2.44
8	Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician`	2.66
9	IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_IA3`	2.78
10	Ashkelon (Late Bronze Age, Israel)`Israel_Ashkelon_LBA`	2.79

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	2.13
2	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	2.38
3	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	2.67
4	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	2.94
5	Samaritan`Samaritan`	3.06
6	Iraqi Jew`Iraqi_Jew`	3.25
7	Druze`Druze`	3.33
8	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	3.40
9	Karaite Iraq`Karaite_Iraq`	3.53
10	Kurdish Jew`Kurdish_Jew`	3.69

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

E1b1b1b2a1a E-M84
J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919
T1a1a1 T-CTS11451

mtDNA

6 individuals with a call

Individuals 7

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
`I14759`	`Turkey_MBA`	F	2000-1500 BCE	Oylum Höyük		U9b
`I14761`	`Turkey_MBA`	F	2000-1500 BCE	Oylum Höyük		K1a17
`I14762`	`Turkey_MBA`	M	1736-1541 calBCE	Oylum Höyük	J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Y2919	J1b1b1
`I14784`	`Turkey_MBA`	M	1876-1632 calBCE	Oylum Höyük	E1b1b1b2a1a E-M84	H
`I14786`	`Turkey_MBA`	F	1686-1518 calBCE	Oylum Höyük		J1b2
`I14788`	`Turkey_MBA`	M	3000-2000 BCE	Oylum Höyük	T1a1a1 T-CTS11451	K1a15
`I5737` outlier	`Turkey_MBA_o1`	M	2035-1900 calBCE	Yassıtepe	I2a1b1a2a1	K1a4a1