The Ancient City of Tepe Hissar

Tepe Hissar rises beside Damghan, south of the Alborz mountains, a settlement excavated by Erich Schmidt in 1931 and 1932 that revealed lapis lazuli workshops, metallurgy and the enigmatic structure known as the Burned Building. These eleven people span the Copper Age and Bronze Age phases of the site, from about 3600 to 2400 BCE, when Hissar was a centre of craft and exchange on the northern plateau. Their genomes carry the Iranian farmer-related ancestry typical of the Copper Age cluster of Iran and Turan, the substrate on which the later populations of the plateau were built, and they show that the city's people belonged to that world through more than a thousand years of change.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia.

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  Who were the Ancient City of Tepe Hissar?

  The Ancient City of Tepe Hissar (c. 3600-2400 BCE, Tepe Hissar, Damghan, Semnan, Iran) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 10 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia".

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  What does "matching" the Ancient City of Tepe Hissar mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No, and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the Ancient City of Tepe Hissar?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestry Map, never sold separately. Order Ancestry Map, our Global25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

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