Ancient population · Bronze Age

Western Liao River (Bronze Age)

Western_Liao_River_BA

Western Liao River (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Western_Liao_River_BA), with 2 samples from Inner Mongolia, China, dated to c. 860–700 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to WLR (Bronze Age, China), NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China) and Bianbian (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Mongola, Xibo and Korean Antu.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include D4j and D4m.

Date
c. 860–700 BCE
Country
China
Origin
Inner Mongolia, China
Sampled near
Longtou Mountain 42.50, 125.41
Samples
2
Published in
NingCuiNatComm2020
Catalogue
Western_Liao_River_BA
Western_Liao_River_BA_o 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
1WLR (Bronze Age, China)China_WLR_BA1.01
2NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China)China_NEastAsia_Coastal_EN2.49
3Bianbian (Neolithic)Bianbian_N2.99
4Xiaojingshan (Neolithic)Xiaojingshan_N3.34
5Xiaogao (Neolithic)Xiaogao_N3.42
6Xiongnu East Asian (Iron Age)Xiongnu_East_Asian3.44
7Heshui Mohe 1 (Early Medieval, Russia)Russia_EarlyMedieval_Heshui_Mohe_13.45
8WLR (Middle Neolithic, China)China_WLR_MN4.34
9Shimao (Late Neolithic)Shimao_LN4.51
10Upper YR (Iron Age, China)China_Upper_YR_IA4.59
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1MongolaMongola3.20
2XiboXibo3.30
3Korean AntuKorean_Antu3.55
4KoreanKorean3.80
5Manchu JinzhouManchu_Jinzhou4.62
6ManchuManchu4.69
7Han ShanxiHan_Shanxi4.80
8YugurYugur5.01
9Manchu LiaoningManchu_Liaoning5.01
10Han HenanHan_Henan5.11

Haplogroups

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 entrySexDateSitemtDNA
91KLH11Western_Liao_River_BAF1050-350 BCELongtou MountainD4m1
91KLH18Western_Liao_River_BAM916-809 calBCELongtou MountainD4j14
91KLM2 outlierWestern_Liao_River_BA_oM1050-350 BCELongtou MountainB4c1a2