Ancient population · Iron Age

Upper Yellow River (Iron Age)

Upper_Yellow_River_IA

Upper Yellow River (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Upper_Yellow_River_IA), with 1 sample from Qinghai, China, dated to c. 190 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Upper YR (Iron Age, China), YR LBIA (Iron Age, China) and Yellow River LBIA (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Han Shanxi, Manchu Liaoning and Han Henan.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is G2b.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 190 CE
Country
China
Origin
Qinghai, China
Sampled near
Dacaozi site 36.53, 101.96
Samples
1
Published in
NingCuiNatComm2020
Catalogue
Upper_Yellow_River_IA

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
1Upper YR (Iron Age, China)China_Upper_YR_IA0.63
2YR LBIA (Iron Age, China)China_YR_LBIA2.14
3Yellow River LBIA (Iron Age)Yellow_River_LBIA2.23
4YR (Late Neolithic, China)China_YR_LN2.31
5YR (Middle Neolithic, China)China_YR_MN2.34
6Yellow River (Late Neolithic)Yellow_River_LN2.35
7Yellow River (Middle Neolithic)Yellow_River_MN2.38
8WLR (Late Neolithic, China)China_WLR_LN2.63
9Western Liao River (Late Neolithic)Western_Liao_River_LN2.64
10Selenge Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Selenge_Xiongnu2.91
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Han ShanxiHan_Shanxi1.74
2Manchu LiaoningManchu_Liaoning1.82
3Han HenanHan_Henan2.04
4Manchu JinzhouManchu_Jinzhou2.04
5Han ShandongHan_Shandong2.08
6ManchuManchu2.24
7Qiang DanbaQiang_Danba2.79
8Tibetan XinlongTibetan_Xinlong2.84
9Korean AntuKorean_Antu3.36
10YugurYugur3.55

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual 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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
DCZ-M21IIM120-248 calCEDacaozi siteG2b1b
DCZ-M22IV outlierF50-150 CEDacaozi siteF1g
DCZM17IV outlierQinghai, China