Bronze Age Levant GEDmatch results.

[Sikeliot]

Not very close to Europeans, but of the Europeans, they are closest to Maltese, Sicilians, and Ashkenazim.

Eurasia K9:

# Population Percent
1 SW_Asian 45.63
2 Early_Neolithic_Farmers 31.49
3 Caucausus_Hunter_Gatherer 16.63
4 WHG 3.1
5 Eastern_Hunter_Gatherer 1.72
6 Siberian_E_Asian 1.31
7 W_African 0.11

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 BedouinA 13.89
2 Yemenite_Jew 14.38
3 Jordanian 15.31
4 Lebanese 15.58
5 Druze 16.01
6 Cypriot 17.04
7 Syrian 17.3
8 Iraqi_Jew 17.34
9 Yemen 21.71
10 Iranian_Jew 23.08
11 Georgian_Jew 23.41
12 Saudi 23.86
13 Armenian 25.73
14 Maltese 26.52
15 Turkish 27.42
16 Sicilian 28.51
17 Azeri 31.35
18 Kurd_N 31.37
19 Georgian 33.46
20 Iranian 33.54

Gedrosia K15:

# Population Percent
1 SW_Asian 50.24
2 Caucuses 21.63
3 EEF 16.91
4 WHG 4.46
5 Balochi 3.02
6 NE_Indian_Tribal 1.56
7 Paniya 1.48
8 Siberian 0.5
9 W_African 0.2

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Palestinian 8.79
2 Syrian 10.42
3 Jordanian 11.11
4 BedouinA 12.78
5 Lebanese 13.25
6 Cypriot 17.71
7 Iraqi_Jew 18.53
8 Iranian_Jew 21.03
9 Assyrian 22.09
10 Yemen 22.67
11 Ashkenazi_Jew 27.01
12 Georgian_Jew 27.5
13 Kurd_C 30.27
14 Saudi 31.68
15 Sicilian 31.98
16 Kurd_N 33.1
17 Turkish 33.66
18 Iranian 34.98
19 Armenian 36.71
20 Yemenite_Jew 38.05


Near East Neolithic K13:
# Population Percent
1 NATUFIAN 47.8
2 ANATOLIA_NEOLITHIC 25.07
3 IRAN_NEOLITHIC 21.71
4 EHG 3.25
5 KARITIANA 1.42
6 SHG_WHG 0.76

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Levant_BA 6.79
2 Jew_Yemenite 18.09
3 Saudi 20.57
4 Palestinian 25.88
5 BedouinA 26.27
6 Yemeni 26.61
7 Egyptian 26.71
8 Libyan 26.87
9 Levant_N 28
10 Jordanian 29.18
11 Jew_Libyan 30.86
12 Lebanese 30.98
13 Jew_Tunisian 31.18
14 Syrian 31.39
15 Druze 32.17
16 Jew_iraqi 32.88
17 Cypriot 35.33
18 Jew_Moroccan 35.84
19 Jew_Iranian 36.02
20 Saharawi 37.46


PuntDNA-L K15:


# Population Percent
1 SW_Asian 33.5
2 Mediterranean 33.48
3 Caucasian 24.07
4 Horn_Of_Africa 8.94

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Bedouin_A 10.83
2 Yemenite_Jew 11.06
3 Libyan 13.36
4 Jordanian 13.43
5 Samaritian 14.59
6 Yemenese 15.05
7 Egyptian 15.23
8 Syrian 16.06
9 Palestinian 16.45
10 Iraqi_Jew 16.73
11 Lebanese 18.26
12 Druze 18.76
13 Cypriot 22.97
14 Saudi 25.25
15 Assyrian 27.43
16 Sephardic_Jew 27.52
17 Ashkenazy_Jew 29.49
18 Sicilian 29.77
19 Turk_Kayseri 30.49
20 Armenian 31.7


HarappaWorld:

# Population Percent
1 SW-Asian 44.73
2 Caucasian 37.26
3 Mediterranean 12.01
4 Baloch 3.57
5 SE-Asian 0.62
6 NE-Asian 0.43
7 Pygmy 0.4
8 W-African 0.38
9 American 0.34
10 S-Indian 0.26

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 yemen-jew (behar) 9.37
2 palestinian (hgdp) 14.26
3 samaritian (behar) 15.55
4 jordanian (behar) 17.11
5 saudi (behar) 17.89
6 egyptian (behar) 18.12
7 egypt (henn2012) 18.53
8 bedouin (hgdp) 18.83
9 yemenese (behar) 18.91
10 syrian (behar) 20.41
11 lebanese (behar) 21.59
12 palestinian (harappa) 21.65
13 qatari (henn2012) 23.66
14 lebanese-christian (haber) 23.74
15 lebanese-muslim (haber) 24.6
16 iraq-jew (behar) 25.6
17 lebanese-druze (haber) 25.91
18 iraqi-arab (harappa) 25.95
19 iraqi-mandaean (harappa) 27.82
20 iranian-jew (behar) 27.96


Dodecad K12b:

# Population Percent
1 Southwest_Asian 42.67
2 Caucasus 36.26
3 Atlantic_Med 11.44
4 Northwest_African 5.37
5 Gedrosia 3.3
6 East_Asian 0.74
7 East_African 0.15
8 Sub_Saharan 0.07

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Bedouin (HGDP) 8.58
2 Palestinian (HGDP) 13.58
3 Yemen_Jews (Behar) 14.11
4 Samaritians (Behar) 15
5 Jordanians (Behar) 16.28
6 Syrians (Behar) 16.98
7 Yemenese (Behar) 19.37
8 Egyptans (Behar) 20.36
9 Lebanese (Behar) 20.39
10 Druze (HGDP) 22.71
11 Iraq_Jews (Behar) 23.75
12 Iranian_Jews (Behar) 27
13 Cypriots (Behar) 28.19
14 Saudis (Behar) 29.11
15 Morocco_Jews (Behar) 29.13
16 Sephardic_Jews (Behar) 29.4
17 Uzbekistan_Jews (Behar) 29.63
18 Georgia_Jews (Behar) 30.11
19 Assyrian (Dodecad) 30.36
20 Azerbaijan_Jews (Behar) 31.24


Eurogenes K15:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 53.14
2 Red_Sea 30.66
3 West_Med 10.7
4 West_Asian 5.31
5 Atlantic 0.13
6 Northeast_African 0.07

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Yemenite_Jewish 9.23
2 Saudi 11.25
3 Palestinian 19.08
4 Bedouin 19.11
5 Samaritan 20.51
6 Jordanian 22.22
7 Lebanese_Christian 22.27
8 Egyptian 22.97
9 Lebanese_Druze 24.26
10 Syrian 24.88
11 Libyan_Jewish 26.14
12 Tunisian_Jewish 27.04
13 Lebanese_Muslim 27.08
14 Cyprian 28.01
15 Kurdish_Jewish 28.68
16 Iranian_Jewish 29.58
17 Sephardic_Jewish 30.02
18 Algerian_Jewish 30.34
19 Italian_Jewish 31
20 Assyrian 33.21


EuTest:

# Population Percent
1 MIDDLE_EASTERN 46.54
2 EAST_MED 38.79
3 WEST_MED 8.78
4 WEST_ASIAN 5.3
5 EAST_ASIAN 0.58

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Bedouin 13.9
2 Samaritan 19.7
3 IQ 24.57
4 Algerian 31.06
5 Druze 31.72
6 Mandean 32.02
7 AJ 33.97
8 Assyrian 35.4
9 South_Italian_&_Sicilian 36.58
10 Moroccan 37.08
11 GR 38.17
12 Mozabite_Berber 39.01
13 Armenian 40.72
14 TR 40.83
15 Kurdish 41.76
16 IR 42.5
17 Tuscan 46.01
18 North_Italian 49.3
19 RO 50.54
20 Serbian 51.25


MDLP World:

# Population Percent
1 Middle_East 54.41
2 South_and_West_European 23.04
3 Caucaus_Parsia 20.5
4 East_Asian 1.6
5 Paleo_African 0.37
6 Sub_Saharian 0.06
7 Mesoamerican 0.02

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Samaritian 5.46
2 Palestinian 10.31
3 Jordanian 16.03
4 Druze 18.62
5 Egyptian 18.67
6 Jew_Libya 18.68
7 Syrian 18.72
8 Lebanese 19.21
9 Jew_Tunisia 20.52
10 Jew_Yemen 20.7
11 Jew_Syria 20.9
12 Bedouin 21.14
13 Jew_Georgia 21.63
14 Jew-Iraqi 22.04
15 Jew_Iraqi 22.71
16 Jew_Morocco 22.95
17 Jew_Algeria 23.03
18 Saudi 23.3
19 Iraqi 23.44
20 Jew-Iran 23.5

[Hadouken]

lol come on now ...

[War Chef]

This shows Levant used to be Arabian. After the bronze age the Levant got flooded with West-Asians..... We are the northmen of the middle-east :costumed-smiley-083

[Mn The Loki TA Son]

Intresting

[Konpirike]

"Not very close to Europeans, but of the Europeans, they are closest to Maltese, Sicilians, and Ashkenazim."

Well it only means that he/she only is composition wise the closest to these Maltese, Sicilians, and Ashkenazim. It doesn't necessarily actually mean that he/she is close/related to these ethnic groups or even share any ancestry with them(Recent ancestry that is). (All humans share ancestry if we go far enough back in time :) ).

[Sikeliot]

"Not very close to Europeans, but of the Europeans, they are closest to Maltese, Sicilians, and Ashkenazim."

Well it only means that he/she only is composition wise the closest to these Maltese, Sicilians, and Ashkenazim. It doesn't necessarily actually mean that he/she is close/related to these ethnic groups or even share any ancestry with them(Recent ancestry that is). (All humans share ancestry if we go far enough back in time :) ).

What I meant with that comment was, we often think Levantines got more "Arab" like and less European, but this person was so far away from Europeans that they were only close to the really outlying islanders. Modern Levantines are more European-like than this even.

[Petalpusher]

They got more European, but also more African as well. Which is something hinted in one of the upcoming paper. There s a fair chance some Euro have that kind of BA input or similar in the chalcolithic.

[Konpirike]

What I meant with that comment was, we often think Levantines got more "Arab" like and less European, but this person was so far away from Europeans that they were only close to the really outlying islanders. Modern Levantines are more European-like than this even.

Yes, right! :)

However many people seem to believe that even modern Levantines ACTUALLY have Sicilian/Italian ancestry since it can appear in their population distances on the calculator. This is not necessarily true. They do score tiny amounts of European, but this European can come from who knows where. It could come from Georgians or other ethnicities like that due to mixture with Levantines. This in turn can pop up as Sicilian/Italian on calculators, but only because their autosomal composition has some similiarites with Sicilians/Italians not because they have actuall ancestry from there.

[Smeagol]

So ancient Levantines were more Arabian like?

[Hadouken]

they lack the African to be Arabian like . Arabians usually score a decent amount of east/northeast african and some west african too depending on person while this ancient levant genome doesnt (as much)

[Sikeliot]

Yes, right! :)

However many people seem to believe that even modern Levantines ACTUALLY have Sicilian/Italian ancestry since it can appear in their population distances on the calculator. This is not necessarily true. They do score tiny amounts of European, but this European can come from who knows where. It could come from Georgians or other ethnicities like that due to mixture with Levantines. This in turn can pop up as Sicilian/Italian on calculators, but only because their autosomal composition has some similiarites with Sicilians/Italians not because they have actuall ancestry from there.

It is the reverse... Sicilians and southern Italians have some Levantine ancestry, as do the Maltese.

The thing to keep in mind is, this result predates the influx of people from the Caucasus region southward.

[wvwvw]

From which part of the Levant is this sample from? Can you link me to the paper?

[Kamal900]

So ancient Levantines were more Arabian like?

The ancient Natufians cluster far more closely to the modern day Egyptians and Arabians than to the modern Levantine population. I think it's because the ancient Levant had experienced intrusion and immigration from Anatolia, transcaucasia and even Iran which had altered the genetic genome of the Levant.

[Inquizzzitor]

I've always heard there was some genetic input by the Euros (mostly French) during the Crusades in Lebanon. No? What could account for the drift towards Europe since ancient times, if not the Crusaders?

[Konpirike]

It is the reverse... Sicilians and southern Italians have some Levantine ancestry, as do the Maltese.

The thing to keep in mind is, this result predates the influx of people from the Caucasus region southward.

Hmm, I believe that this is impossible to know with todays genetic testing. It could be like that or it could be the otherway around, or it could be that Sicilians/Italians and Levantines share a common ancestor, but this would not mean that Sicilians/Italians have Levantine ancestry only that they share ancestors.

It might be true that this predates the influx of people from the caucasus region,if there ever was such an influx, however this sample seem to clearly have "Caucasus/Anatolian/WestAsian" ancestry with the SouthWest Asian ancestry being dominant.

[Sikeliot]

I've always heard there was some genetic input by the Euros (mostly French) during the Crusades in Lebanon. No? What could account for the drift towards Europe since ancient times, if not the Crusaders?

They have very minor Norman, other French, and other West European in them. Mostly in the Muslims, hence why they are slightly closer to Europe genetically than Lebanese Christians even though you'd expect the opposite.

[Narration]

I wonder when they got their current ANE.