Ancient population · Bronze Age
Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)
Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA
Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA), with 11 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 1910–1600 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey), Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria) and Turkey (Middle Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh, Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta and Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2a (3), T1a (2) and E1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a (3), H92, R1a and X2d.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 1910–1600 BCE
- Country
- Turkey
- Sampled near
- Tell-Atchana 36.24, 36.38
- Sites
- Tell-Atchana (10)
Atchana-Alalakh - Samples
- 11
- Published in
- IngmanStockhammerPLoSOne2021
- Catalogue
Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA
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 | Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_Alalakh_MLBA | 1.28 |
| 2 | Ebla (Early–Middle Bronze Age, Syria)Syria_Ebla_EMBA | 1.36 |
| 3 | Turkey (Middle Bronze Age)Turkey_MBA | 1.43 |
| 4 | Alalakh (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Alalakh_MLBA | 1.56 |
| 5 | SE Kilis (Middle Bronze Age)SE_Kilis_MBA | 1.62 |
| 6 | Lebanese Christian Greek OrthodoxLebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox | 1.82 |
| 7 | Lebanese Christian MaroniteLebanese_Christian_Maronite | 2.02 |
| 8 | Levant (Medieval, Lebanon)Levant_LBN_MA | 2.29 |
| 9 | Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII | 2.30 |
| 10 | Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician | 2.30 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 1.81 |
| 2 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 2.00 |
| 3 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 2.12 |
| 4 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 2.42 |
| 5 | DruzeDruze | 2.76 |
| 6 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 2.82 |
| 7 | Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour | 3.13 |
| 8 | Iraqi JewIraqi_Jew | 3.13 |
| 9 | AlawiteAlawite | 3.21 |
| 10 | SamaritanSamaritan | 3.33 |
Haplogroups
Y-DNA
8 men with a call
- T1a1a T-L208 2
- E1b1b1a1a1 E-Y2863
- J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Z2317
- J2a1a1a2b2a2b1 J-Y113289
- J2a1a1a2b2a3b1a1b1 J-BY96242
- J2a1a1a2b2a3b1b J-CTS6804
- L1b1 L-M349
Individuals 11
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALA110_noUDG | M | 2018-1778 calBCE | Atchana-Alalakh | T1a1a T-L208 | |
ALA118 | F | 2000-1200 BCE | Tell-Atchana | ||
ALA120 | M | 2000-1200 BCE | Tell-Atchana | J2a1a1a2b2a3b1a1b1 J-BY96242 | H92 |
ALA123 | M | 1800-1550 BCE | Tell-Atchana | J2a1a1a2b2a3b1b J-CTS6804 | X2d |
ALA124 | M | 2000-1200 BCE | Tell-Atchana | J1a2a1a2d2b2b2 J-Z2317 | |
ALA128_noUDG | M | 2000-1200 BCE | Tell-Atchana | L1b1 L-M349 | |
ALA130_noUDG | F | 2000-1200 BCE | Tell-Atchana | K1a4c1 | |
ALA131_noUDG | M | 2000-1200 BCE | Tell-Atchana | J2a1a1a2b2a2b1 J-Y113289 | K1a4a |
ALA135_noUDG | F | 2000-1200 BCE | Tell-Atchana | R1a | |
ALA136_noUDG | M | 2000-1200 BCE | Tell-Atchana | E1b1b1a1a1 E-Y2863 | |
ALA138_noUDG | M | 2000-1200 BCE | Tell-Atchana | T1a1a T-L208 | K1a |