Ancient population · Iron Age
Xiongnu Central Asian (Iron Age)
Xiongnu_Central_Asian
Xiongnu Central Asian (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Xiongnu_Central_Asian), with 2 samples from Khövsgöl, Mongolia, dated to c. 200–160 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Shirenzigou (Iron Age), Xinjiang Baiyanghe 2 (Iron Age, China) and Xinjiang Zhagunluke (Iron Age, China); the nearest living populations are Tatar Siberian, Hazara Afghanistan and Nogai.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include D4b and G3a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 200–160 BCE
- Country
- Mongolia
- Origin
- Khövsgöl, Mongolia
- Sampled near
- Unknown, IKh-Uul 49.27, 101.72
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
- Catalogue
Xiongnu_Central_Asian
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shirenzigou (Iron Age)Shirenzigou_IA | 2.77 |
| 2 | Xinjiang Baiyanghe 2 (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Baiyanghe_IA_2 | 2.92 |
| 3 | Xinjiang Zhagunluke (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Zhagunluke_IA | 3.75 |
| 4 | Xinjian (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjian_IA | 3.83 |
| 5 | Mongolia 5 (Early Iron Age)Mongolia_EIA_5 | 3.84 |
| 6 | Karakhanid (Medieval, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_KarakhanidKazakhstan_Karakhanid | 4.14 |
| 7 | Xinjiang Xikakandasayi Historical (Antiquity, China)China_Xinjiang_Xikakandasayi_Historical | 4.38 |
| 8 | Tasmola (Iron Age)Tasmola_IA | 4.58 |
| 9 | Tasmola (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Tasmola_EIA | 4.71 |
| 10 | Xinjiang Dongtalede (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Dongtalede_IA | 4.71 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tatar SiberianTatar_Siberian | 6.01 |
| 2 | Hazara AfghanistanHazara_Afghanistan | 6.51 |
| 3 | NogaiNogai | 6.99 |
| 4 | UygurUygur | 7.13 |
| 5 | Nogai DobrujaNogai_Dobruja | 7.20 |
| 6 | HazaraHazara | 7.21 |
| 7 | BashkirBashkir | 7.32 |
| 8 | UzbekUzbek | 7.55 |
| 9 | KarakalpakKarakalpak | 7.86 |
| 10 | TubalarTubalar | 8.70 |
Haplogroups
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.