Ancient population · Neolithic

Turkey (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A)

Name: Turkey (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A) (Turkey_PPNA)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_PPNA

Turkey (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_PPNA), with 1 sample from Turkey, dated to c. 8750 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Iraq (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A), Dinkha Tepe 1 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran) and SE Sirnak (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Kurdish Jew, Nash Didan Jew Urmia and Iraqi Jew.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is K1a.

Period: Neolithic
Date: c. 8750 BCE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Boncuklu Tarla 37.53, 41.85
Samples: 1
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Turkey_PPNA

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	Iraq (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A)`Iraq_PPNA`	5.12
2	Dinkha Tepe 1 (Bronze Age–Iron Age, Iran)`Iran_DinkhaTepe_BA_IA_1`	5.24
3	SE Sirnak (Bronze Age)`SE_Sirnak_BA`	5.72
4	Nemrik9 (Late Bronze Age)`Nemrik9_LBA`	5.73
5	Kuriki Hoyuk (Chalcolithic, Turkey)`Turkey_KurikiHoyuk_C`	5.83
6	Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age)`DinkhaTepe_BIA_A`	5.89
7	Hajji Firuz (Neolithic, Iran)`Iran_HajjiFiruz_N`	6.15
8	Hajji Firuz (Chalcolithic)`Hajji_Firuz_C`	6.29
9	Turkey (Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)`Turkey_LateC_EBA`	6.44
10	Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)`Syria_Ebla_EMBA`	6.49

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Kurdish Jew`Kurdish_Jew`	6.01
2	Nash Didan Jew Urmia`Nash_Didan_Jew_Urmia`	6.11
3	Iraqi Jew`Iraqi_Jew`	6.17
4	Chaldean Iraq`Chaldean_Iraq`	6.68
5	Iranian Jew`Iranian_Jew`	6.82
6	Iraqi`Iraqi`	6.92
7	Assyrian`Assyrian`	6.95
8	Mountain Jew Azerbaijan`Mountain_Jew_Azerbaijan`	6.96
9	Mandaean Iraq`Mandaean_Iraq`	6.99
10	Mountain Jew Dagestan`Mountain_Jew_Dagestan`	6.99

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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
`I8432`	F	9000-8500 BCE	Boncuklu Tarla	K1a