Ancient population · Iron Age
Xiongnu East Asian (Iron Age)
Xiongnu_East_Asian
Xiongnu East Asian (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Xiongnu_East_Asian), with 2 samples from Arkhangai, Mongolia, dated to c. 150–100 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to WLR (Bronze Age, China), NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China) and Western Liao River (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Yugur, Mongola and Han Shanxi.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups L2 and O2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include D4a and D4b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 150–100 BCE
- Country
- Mongolia
- Origin
- Arkhangai, Mongolia
- Sampled near
- Omnogobi 42.53, 105.18
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
- Catalogue
Xiongnu_East_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 | WLR (Bronze Age, China)China_WLR_BA | 3.06 |
| 2 | NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China)China_NEastAsia_Coastal_EN | 3.38 |
| 3 | Western Liao River (Bronze Age)Western_Liao_River_BA | 3.44 |
| 4 | Upper Yellow River (Iron Age)Upper_Yellow_River_IA | 3.96 |
| 5 | Upper YR (Iron Age, China)China_Upper_YR_IA | 3.97 |
| 6 | Heshui Mohe 1 (Early Medieval, Russia)Russia_EarlyMedieval_Heshui_Mohe_1 | 3.98 |
| 7 | Xiaojingshan (Neolithic)Xiaojingshan_N | 4.12 |
| 8 | Bianbian (Neolithic)Bianbian_N | 4.17 |
| 9 | Yellow River LBIA (Iron Age)Yellow_River_LBIA | 4.41 |
| 10 | YR LBIA (Iron Age, China)China_YR_LBIA | 4.42 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | YugurYugur | 2.57 |
| 2 | MongolaMongola | 3.01 |
| 3 | Han ShanxiHan_Shanxi | 3.29 |
| 4 | Manchu JinzhouManchu_Jinzhou | 3.41 |
| 5 | ManchuManchu | 3.64 |
| 6 | TuTu | 3.67 |
| 7 | Han HenanHan_Henan | 3.96 |
| 8 | Manchu LiaoningManchu_Liaoning | 4.03 |
| 9 | Korean AntuKorean_Antu | 4.11 |
| 10 | Han ShandongHan_Shandong | 4.18 |
Haplogroups
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.