Ancient population · Neolithic

Upper Yellow River (Late Neolithic)

Upper_Yellow_River_LN

Upper Yellow River (Late Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Upper_Yellow_River_LN), with 5 samples from Qinghai, China, dated to c. 2530–1950 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Upper YR (Late Neolithic, China), Shimao (Late Neolithic, China) and Shimao (Late Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Qiang Daofu, Tibetan Chamdo and Tibetan Yajiang.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include F1g (2), A18, G1c and G3a.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 2530–1950 BCE
Country
China
Origin
Qinghai, China
Sampled near
Lajia site 36.59, 101.94
Sites
Lajia site (4)
Jinchankou site
Samples
5
Published in
NingCuiNatComm2020
Catalogue
Upper_Yellow_River_LN

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 (Late Neolithic, China)China_Upper_YR_LN0.98
2Shimao (Late Neolithic, China)China_Shimao_LN2.72
3Shimao (Late Neolithic)Shimao_LN2.83
4Yellow River (Middle Neolithic)Yellow_River_MN3.60
5YR (Middle Neolithic, China)China_YR_MN3.73
6Mustang Lubrak (Early Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Lubrak_EIA4.11
7NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China)China_NEastAsia_Coastal_EN4.47
8Upper YR (Iron Age, China)China_Upper_YR_IA4.58
9Miaozigou (Middle Neolithic)Miaozigou_MN4.58
10Xiaojingshan (Neolithic)Xiaojingshan_N4.62
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Qiang DaofuQiang_Daofu2.66
2Tibetan ChamdoTibetan_Chamdo2.96
3Tibetan YajiangTibetan_Yajiang3.32
4PumiPumi3.34
5Tibetan NagquTibetan_Nagqu3.51
6Tibetan YunnanTibetan_Yunnan3.64
7Qiang DanbaQiang_Danba3.72
8NagaNaga3.78
9Tibetan LhasaTibetan_Lhasa4.22
10Tibetan ShigatseTibetan_Shigatse4.49

Haplogroups

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
JCKM1-1M2461-2208 calBCEJinchankou siteG3a2
LJM14M2050-1850 BCELajia siteA18
LJM2F2050-1850 BCELajia siteF1g
LJM3M2866-2237 calBCELajia siteG1c1
LJM5M2850-2200 BCELajia siteF1g