Ancient population · Medieval

Roman Byzantine 3 (Medieval, Turkey)

Name: Roman Byzantine 3 (Medieval, Turkey) (Turkey_RomanByzantine_3)
Creator: Genoplot

Turkey_RomanByzantine_3

Roman Byzantine 3 (Medieval, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_RomanByzantine_3), with 1 sample from Turkey, dated to c. 600 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age), Lebanese Christian Maronite and Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox; the nearest living populations are Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta, Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh and Lebanese Druze.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is X2.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 600 CE
Country: Turkey
Sampled near: Aktaş-Mevki 37.41, 41.37
Samples: 1
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Turkey_RomanByzantine_3

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	Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age)`DinkhaTepe_BIA_A`	2.19
2	Lebanese Christian Maronite`Lebanese_Christian_Maronite`	2.28
3	Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox`Lebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox`	2.46
4	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA`	2.56
5	Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)`Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA`	2.83
6	Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Alalakh_MLBA`	2.88
7	Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)`Syria_Ebla_EMBA`	2.90
8	Levant Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Levant_LBN_Roman`	3.01
9	Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_SoutheastByzantine`	3.02
10	SE Sirnak (Bronze Age)`SE_Sirnak_BA`	3.04

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta`Lebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta`	2.34
2	Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh`Lebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh`	2.38
3	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	2.46
4	Druze`Druze`	2.50
5	Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura`Lebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura`	2.56
6	Lebanese Christian`Lebanese_Christian`	2.71
7	Iraqi Jew`Iraqi_Jew`	2.72
8	Kurdish Jew`Kurdish_Jew`	2.82
9	Alawite`Alawite`	2.91
10	Syrian Hama`Syrian_Hama`	2.95

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
`I4613`	F	500-700 CE	Aktaş-Mevki	X2