Ancient population · Iron Age
Persian (Iron Age, Turkey)
Turkey_Persian
Persian (Iron Age, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_Persian), with 1 sample from Turkey, dated to c. 650 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey), Turkey (Early Bronze Age) and Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic); the nearest living populations are Greek Central Anatolia, Cypriot and Armenian Aintab.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is U3b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 650 BCE
- Country
- Turkey
- Sampled near
- Gordion 39.65, 32.00
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
- Catalogue
Turkey_Persian_noUDGvariant
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 | Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod | 2.36 |
| 2 | Turkey (Early Bronze Age)Turkey_EBA | 2.47 |
| 3 | Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic)C_Gordion_Anc | 2.49 |
| 4 | Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA | 2.65 |
| 5 | Arslantepe (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_Arslantepe_EBA | 2.75 |
| 6 | Arslantepe (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Arslantepe_LateC | 2.76 |
| 7 | Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_CamlibelTarlasi_LateC | 2.83 |
| 8 | II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_EBA_II | 2.84 |
| 9 | Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)Ovaoren_EBA | 2.87 |
| 10 | Ikiztepe (Late Chalcolithic)Ikiztepe_LC | 2.94 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greek Central AnatoliaGreek_Central_Anatolia | 3.17 |
| 2 | CypriotCypriot | 3.65 |
| 3 | Armenian AintabArmenian_Aintab | 3.97 |
| 4 | Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa | 4.03 |
| 5 | ArmenianArmenian | 4.09 |
| 6 | Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes | 4.24 |
| 7 | Turkish TrabzonTurkish_Trabzon | 4.47 |
| 8 | Armenian GesariaArmenian_Gesaria | 4.53 |
| 9 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 4.55 |
| 10 | Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese | 4.58 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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 | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I3917_noUDG | F | 775-544 calBCE | Gordion | U3b2a1a |