Ancient population · Bronze Age

Old Hittite Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)

Name: Old Hittite Period (Bronze Age, Turkey) (Turkey_OldHittitePeriod)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_OldHittitePeriod

Old Hittite Period (Bronze Age, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_OldHittitePeriod), with 2 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 1620 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age), II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey) and Turkey (Chalcolithic); the nearest living populations are Cypriot, Greek Dodecanese Rhodes and Greek Dodecanese.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1c and K1a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1620 BCE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Kalehöyük 39.35, 33.79
Samples: 2
Published in: DamgaardWillerslevScience2018
Catalogue: Turkey_OldHittitePeriod.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	Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA`	1.45
2	II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_EBA_II`	2.00
3	Turkey (Chalcolithic)`Turkey_C`	2.00
4	Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)`Ovaoren_EBA`	2.16
5	Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey)`Turkey_Roman_5`	2.18
6	West Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_WestByzantine`	2.34
7	Archaic Sub Geometric (Iron Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Archaic_SubGeometric`	2.37
8	Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic)`C_Gordion_Anc`	2.53
9	Early Byzantine 2 (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_EarlyByzantine_2`	2.54
10	Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod`	2.57

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Cypriot`Cypriot`	3.11
2	Greek Dodecanese Rhodes`Greek_Dodecanese_Rhodes`	3.26
3	Greek Dodecanese`Greek_Dodecanese`	3.61
4	Greek Kos`Greek_Kos`	3.76
5	Romaniote Jew`Romaniote_Jew`	4.10
6	Greek Central Anatolia`Greek_Central_Anatolia`	4.18
7	Greek Cyclades Amorgos`Greek_Cyclades_Amorgos`	4.62
8	Turkish Jew`Turkish_Jew`	4.76
9	Sephardic Jew`Sephardic_Jew`	4.84
10	Italian Jew`Italian_Jew`	4.85

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J2a1a1a2b2a2b2 J-FT156609

mtDNA

2 individuals 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	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`MA2200_noUDG.SG`	M	1750-1500 BCE	Kalehöyük	J2a1a1a2b2a2b2 J-FT156609	K1a
`MA2203_noUDG.SG`	F	1750-1500 BCE	Kalehöyük		J1c