Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Namazga (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)

Turkmenistan_C_Namazga

Namazga (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkmenistan_C_Namazga), with 2 samples from Turkmenistan, dated to c. 3220 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Namazga Tepe En (Chalcolithic), Gonur 1 (Bronze Age, Turkmenistan) and Geoksyur (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan); the nearest living populations are Balochi, Balochi Pakistan and Makrani.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1 and U2b.

Date
c. 3220 BCE
Sampled near
Geoksyur 37.40, 60.18
Sites
Geoksyur
Kara-Depe
Samples
2
Catalogue
Turkmenistan_C_Namazga.SG variant
Turkmenistan_C_Namazga_o.SG outliers

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
1Namazga Tepe En (Chalcolithic)Namazga_Tepe_En0.48
2Gonur 1 (Bronze Age, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_Gonur_BA_12.54
3Geoksyur (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_Geoksyur2.58
4Dzharkutan 1 (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Dzharkutan_BA_13.04
5Geoksyur (Neolithic)Geoksyur_N3.06
6Parkhai (Chalcolithic, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_C_Parkhai3.44
7Sappali Tepe (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_SappaliTepe_BA3.63
8Bustan (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Bustan_BA3.71
9Parkhai (Middle Bronze Age, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_MBA_Parkhai3.85
10Parkhai (Early Bronze Age, Turkmenistan)Turkmenistan_EBA_Parkhai3.94
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1BalochiBalochi7.99
2Balochi PakistanBalochi_Pakistan7.99
3MakraniMakrani8.00
4Balochi IranBalochi_Iran8.12
5BrahuiBrahui8.24
6Iranian MazandaraniIranian_Mazandarani9.01
7Iranian BandariIranian_Bandari9.08
8Iranian Persian KhorasanIranian_Persian_Khorasan10.04
9Pashtun AfghanistanPashtun_Afghanistan10.05
10Pashtun Afghanistan PaktiaPashtun_Afghanistan_Paktia10.34

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
DA380_noUDG.SGTurkmenistan_C_Namazga.SGF3366-3098 calBCEKara-DepeU2b
DA381_noUDG.SGTurkmenistan_C_Namazga.SGM3367-3098 calBCEGeoksyurJ2a1a1b1 J-YSC0000253J1
DA383_noUDG.SG outlierTurkmenistan_C_Namazga_o.SGF3400-3000 BCETakhirbai 3W3a2