Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Tell Kurdu (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey)

Turkey_TellKurdu_EC

Tell Kurdu (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_TellKurdu_EC), with 3 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 5680–5600 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Catalhoyuk Ceramic (Neolithic), Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic) and Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Macedonia N and Romania N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups F and J1.

Date
c. 5680–5600 BCE
Country
Turkey
Sampled near
Tell-Kurdu 36.33, 36.44
Samples
3
Catalogue
Turkey_TellKurdu_EC

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
#PopulationDistance
1Catalhoyuk Ceramic (Neolithic)Catalhoyuk_N_Ceramic3.88
2Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic)Tepecik_Ciftlik_N3.96
3Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic, Turkey)Turkey_TepecikCiftlik_N4.22
4Minoan Kephala Petras (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Kephala_Petras4.98
5Catalhoyuk Ceramic (Neolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Catalhoyuk_N_Ceramic5.51
6Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Lassithi5.76
7Middle Minoan (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_MiddleMinoan6.01
8Peloponnese (Neolithic, Greece)Greece_Peloponnese_N6.03
9Manika Helladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Manika_Helladic_EBA6.22
10Marmara Ilipinar (Neolithic)Marmara_Ilipinar_N6.51
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Bulgaria NBulgaria_N7.59
2Macedonia NMacedonia_N7.83
3Romania NRomania_N7.95
4SamaritanSamaritan9.54
5Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew9.56
6CypriotCypriot9.67
7Tunisian JewTunisian_Jew9.67
8Italian JewItalian_Jew9.81
9Bulgarian JewBulgarian_Jew9.86
10Algerian JewAlgerian_Jew9.86

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

  • F F
  • J1 J-L620

Individuals 3

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNA
KRD001M5722-5634 calBCETell-KurduF F
KRD003M5714-5572 calBCETell-KurduJ1 J-L620
KRD006F5800-5400 BCETell-Kurdu