Ancient population · Neolithic

Tell Kurdu EMC (Neolithic, Turkey)

Turkey_TellKurdu_EMC

Tell Kurdu EMC (Neolithic, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_TellKurdu_EMC), with 1 sample from Turkey, dated to c. 4940 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Buyukkaya (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey), Ashkelon IA1 (Iron Age, Israel) and Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Cypriot, Lebanese Christian and Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 4940 BCE
Country
Turkey
Sampled near
Tell-Kurdu 36.33, 36.44
Samples
1
Catalogue
Turkey_TellKurdu_EMC

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
1Buyukkaya (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_Buyukkaya_EC5.55
2Ashkelon IA1 (Iron Age, Israel)Israel_Ashkelon_IA16.05
3Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_CamlibelTarlasi_LateC6.19
4Middle Minoan (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_MiddleMinoan6.21
5Camlibel Tarlasi (Late Chalcolithic)Camlibel_Tarlasi_LC6.37
6Turkey (Early Bronze Age)Turkey_EBA6.44
7Kaman-Kalehoyuk (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA6.47
8Ovaoren (Early Bronze Age)Ovaoren_EBA6.49
9II (Early Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_EBA_II6.51
10Assyrian Colony Period (Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_AssyrianColonyPeriod6.58
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1CypriotCypriot7.14
2Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian7.26
3Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta7.45
4Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour7.47
5Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura7.54
6Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh7.60
7Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew7.67
8SamaritanSamaritan7.87
9DruzeDruze7.87
10Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes7.93

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

  • G G-P287

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNA
KRD002M5007-4846 calBCETell-KurduG G-P287