Ancient population · Neolithic

Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic, Turkey)

Turkey_TepecikCiftlik_N

Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_TepecikCiftlik_N), with 3 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 6540–6290 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic), Minoan Kephala Petras (Bronze Age, Greece) and Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Macedonia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a, N1a and N1b.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 6540–6290 BCE
Country
Turkey
Sampled near
Tepecik-Ciftlik 38.17, 34.49
Samples
3
Catalogue
Turkey_TepecikCiftlik_N.SG variant

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
1Tepecik Ciftlik (Neolithic)Tepecik_Ciftlik_N1.26
2Minoan Kephala Petras (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Kephala_Petras3.34
3Minoan Lassithi (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Minoan_Lassithi3.66
4Manika Helladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Manika_Helladic_EBA3.73
5Peloponnese (Neolithic, Greece)Greece_Peloponnese_N3.87
6Middle Minoan (Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_MiddleMinoan4.00
7Minoan Odigitria low res (Bronze Age)Minoan_Odigitria_low_res4.04
8Tell Kurdu (Early Chalcolithic, Turkey)Turkey_TellKurdu_EC4.22
9Koufonisi Cycladic (Early Bronze Age, Greece)Greece_Koufonisi_Cycladic_EBA4.47
10Kumtepe (Neolithic)Kumtepe_N4.53
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Bulgaria NBulgaria_N5.23
2Romania NRomania_N5.84
3Macedonia NMacedonia_N6.14
4Croatia NCroatia_N7.45
5Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew8.48
6Italian JewItalian_Jew8.53
7Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes8.75
8CypriotCypriot8.76
9Turkish JewTurkish_Jew8.81
10Italian CalabriaItalian_Calabria8.88

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

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-DNAmtDNA
Tep002_noUDG.WGCF6636-6467 calBCETepecik-CiftlikK1a12a
Tep003_noUDG.WGCM6570-6422 calBCETepecik-CiftlikG2a2a2 G-Z36520N1b1a
Tep004_noUDG.WGCF6385-6102 calBCETepecik-CiftlikN1a1a1