Ancient population · Neolithic
Turkey (Neolithic)
Turkey_N
Turkey (Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_N), with 28 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 6350–5920 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Marmara Barcin (Neolithic), Serbia (Neolithic) and Marmara Ilipinar (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Macedonia N and Romania N.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups G2a (10), I2a (2) and C1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a (8), N1a (3), J1c (2) and U3 (2).
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 6350–5920 BCE
- Country
- Turkey
- Sampled near
- Barcın-Höyük 40.30, 29.60
- Sites
- Barcın-Höyük (23)
Menteşe (4)
Ilıpınar - Samples
- 28
- Published in
- HofmanováBurgerPNAS2016
MathiesonReichNature2015
LazaridisReichScience2022
LazaridisReichNature2025
GokhmanCarmelNatComm2020 - Catalogue
Turkey_NTurkey_N.SGvariantTurkey_N_noUDGvariantTurkey_N.DGvariant
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marmara Barcin (Neolithic)Marmara_Barcin_N | 1.20 |
| 2 | Serbia (Neolithic)SRB_N | 1.84 |
| 3 | Marmara Ilipinar (Neolithic)Marmara_Ilipinar_N | 1.86 |
| 4 | Grotta Continenza (Neolithic)Grotta_Continenza_N | 2.07 |
| 5 | South (Neolithic, Italy)Italy_South_N | 2.13 |
| 6 | Albania (Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic)Albania_LN_C | 2.15 |
| 7 | Nea Nikomedeia (Early Neolithic, Greece)Greece_NeaNikomedeia_EN | 2.20 |
| 8 | Saxony LBK (Neolithic, Germany)Germany_Saxony_LBK_N | 2.23 |
| 9 | Marmara Mentese (Neolithic)Marmara_Mentese_N | 2.26 |
| 10 | Serbia (Early Neolithic)Serbia_EN | 2.35 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bulgaria NBulgaria_N | 1.69 |
| 2 | Macedonia NMacedonia_N | 2.22 |
| 3 | Romania NRomania_N | 2.40 |
| 4 | Croatia NCroatia_N | 4.58 |
| 5 | SardinianSardinian | 7.91 |
| 6 | Sardinia NSardinia_N | 9.48 |
| 7 | Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria | 11.82 |
| 8 | Italian JewItalian_Jew | 11.84 |
| 9 | French CorsicaFrench_Corsica | 11.88 |
| 10 | Italian CampaniaItalian_Campania | 11.88 |
Haplogroups
Y-DNA
17 men with a call
Individuals 28
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 | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bar31_noUDG.SG | Turkey_N.SG | M | 6417-6236 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | G2a2b G-CTS574 | X2m |
Bar8_noUDG.SG | Turkey_N.SG | F | 6221-6021 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | K1a2 | |
I0707 | Turkey_N | F | 6225-6065 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | K1a4 | |
I0708 | Turkey_N | M | 6224-6074 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | J2a1 J-Z6050 | N1b1a |
I0709 | Turkey_N | M | 6223-6034 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | H H-Y19966 | U3 |
I0723_enhanced | Turkey_N | M | 6008-5835 calBCE | Menteşe | G2a2a G-PF3147 | X2m2 |
I0724_enhanced | Turkey_N | M | 6400-5600 BCE | Menteşe | I2a2 I-L596 | K1a4 |
I0726 | Turkey_N | F | 6400-5600 BCE | Menteşe | H | |
I0727_enhanced | Turkey_N | M | 6400-5600 BCE | Menteşe | G2a G-P15 | K1a2 |
I0736 | Turkey_N | F | 6500-6200 BCE | Barcın-Höyük | N1a1a | |
I0744 | Turkey_N | M | 6400-6239 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | G2a2b2a3 G-Y110003 | J1c11 |
I0745 | Turkey_N | M | 6387-6111 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | H2c1a H-FTC500 | U8b1b1 |
I0746 | Turkey_N | M | 6070-5888 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | G2a2b2a1a1c G-CTS342 | K1a |
I1096 | Turkey_N | M | 6500-6200 BCE | Barcın-Höyük | I2a2 I-L596 | N1a1a |
I1097 | Turkey_N | M | 6420-6245 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | G2a2b2a3 G-Y110003 | W1 |
I1098 | Turkey_N | F | 6419-6246 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | X2d | |
I1099 | Turkey_N | M | 6500-6200 BCE | Barcın-Höyük | G2a2a1a2 G-Z6484 | T2 |
I1100 | Turkey_N | F | 6500-6200 BCE | Barcın-Höyük | K | |
I1101 | Turkey_N | M | 6500-6200 BCE | Barcın-Höyük | F F | T2b |
I1102 | Turkey_N | M | 6500-6200 BCE | Barcın-Höyük | C1a2 C-Y83490 | K1a3a |
I1103 | Turkey_N | M | 6500-6200 BCE | Barcın-Höyük | G2a2a1a2 G-Z6484 | K1b1b1 |
I1579_enhanced | Turkey_N | F | 6221-6028 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | K1a | |
I1580_enhanced | Turkey_N | F | 6381-6088 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | H5 | |
I1581_enhanced | Turkey_N | F | 6386-6228 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | U3 | |
I1583_enhanced | Turkey_N | M | 6424-6233 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | G2a2a1a2 G-Z6484 | K1a2 |
I1583.DG | Turkey_N.DG | M | 6424-6233 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | G2a2a1a2 G-Z6484 | K1a2 |
I1585_enhanced | Turkey_N | F | 6217-6007 calBCE | Barcın-Höyük | J1c | |
I3121_noUDG | Turkey_N_noUDG | M | 6150-5800 BCE | Ilıpınar | G2a2a2b | N1a1a1 |