Ancient population · Neolithic
Yellow River (Middle Neolithic)
Yellow_River_MN
Yellow River (Middle Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Yellow_River_MN), with 2 samples from Henan, China, dated to c. 4980–3300 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to YR (Middle Neolithic, China), Upper Yellow River (Iron Age) and Upper YR (Iron Age, China); the nearest living populations are Qiang Danba, Han Shanxi and Manchu Liaoning.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include B4d and D4g.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 4980–3300 BCE
- Country
- China
- Origin
- Henan, China
- Sampled near
- Wanggou site 34.69, 112.19
- Sites
- Wanggou site
Xiaowu site - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- NingCuiNatComm2020
- Catalogue
Yellow_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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | YR (Middle Neolithic, China)China_YR_MN | 0.51 |
| 2 | Upper Yellow River (Iron Age)Upper_Yellow_River_IA | 2.38 |
| 3 | Upper YR (Iron Age, China)China_Upper_YR_IA | 2.48 |
| 4 | Shimao (Late Neolithic)Shimao_LN | 2.50 |
| 5 | Shimao (Late Neolithic, China)China_Shimao_LN | 2.57 |
| 6 | WLR (Late Neolithic, China)China_WLR_LN | 2.73 |
| 7 | Western Liao River (Late Neolithic)Western_Liao_River_LN | 2.74 |
| 8 | YR (Late Neolithic, China)China_YR_LN | 2.76 |
| 9 | Yellow River (Late Neolithic)Yellow_River_LN | 2.77 |
| 10 | YR LBIA (Iron Age, China)China_YR_LBIA | 2.98 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qiang DanbaQiang_Danba | 2.48 |
| 2 | Han ShanxiHan_Shanxi | 3.01 |
| 3 | Manchu LiaoningManchu_Liaoning | 3.30 |
| 4 | Han HenanHan_Henan | 3.37 |
| 5 | Han ShandongHan_Shandong | 3.50 |
| 6 | Manchu JinzhouManchu_Jinzhou | 3.52 |
| 7 | Tibetan XinlongTibetan_Xinlong | 3.63 |
| 8 | PumiPumi | 3.70 |
| 9 | ManchuManchu | 3.73 |
| 10 | Tibetan YajiangTibetan_Yajiang | 3.94 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 5
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.