Ancient population · Neolithic

Western Liao River (Middle Neolithic)

Western_Liao_River_MN

Western Liao River (Middle Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Western_Liao_River_MN), with 2 samples from Liaoning, China, dated to c. 3300–3210 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to WLR (Middle Neolithic, China), Heshui Mohe 1 (Early Medieval, Russia) and Yankovsky (Iron Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Xibo, Hezhen and Daur.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is D5a (2).

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 3300–3210 BCE
Country
China
Origin
Liaoning, China
Sampled near
Banla mountain 41.41, 120.27
Samples
2
Published in
NingCuiNatComm2020
Catalogue
Western_Liao_River_MN

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 (Middle Neolithic, China)China_WLR_MN1.76
2Heshui Mohe 1 (Early Medieval, Russia)Russia_EarlyMedieval_Heshui_Mohe_14.08
3Yankovsky (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_IA_Yankovsky4.44
4Amur River LPaleolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, China)China_AmurRiver_LPaleolithic4.56
5Xiaogao (Neolithic)Xiaogao_N4.58
6Tuv Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Tuv_Xiongnu4.60
7Amur River (Neolithic, c. 9200 BP)Amur_River_9200BP4.67
8Western Liao River (Bronze Age)Western_Liao_River_BA4.75
9NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China)China_NEastAsia_Coastal_EN4.79
10WLR (Bronze Age, China)China_WLR_BA4.86
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1XiboXibo3.69
2HezhenHezhen4.11
3DaurDaur4.50
4MongolaMongola4.98
5Mongol IMARMongol_IMAR6.72
6Korean AntuKorean_Antu7.25
7KoreanKorean7.47
8Tibetan GangchaTibetan_Gangcha7.58
9Tibetan ChamdoTibetan_Chamdo7.71
10Tibetan NagquTibetan_Nagqu7.73

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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
BLSM27SF3550-3050 BCEBanla mountainD5a3a1
BLSM45F3353-3093 calBCEBanla mountainD5a3a1