The Bronze Age Anatolians of Kaman-Kalehöyük

Kaman-Kalehöyük is a mound in the heart of Anatolia that Japanese archaeologists have been peeling back layer by layer since 1986. The people buried here lived through two eras: the Assyrian Colony period, when merchant caravans from Assur brought cuneiform writing into Anatolia, and the Old Hittite kingdom that followed. Their genomes settled an old debate. They carry no detectable steppe ancestry at all, so the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European languages, Hittite among them, arrived on the plateau without any mass migration from the steppe. Three men and two women, with paternal lineages J2a and G2a2b1, they are the ordinary townsfolk of central Anatolia in the age when writing first reached it.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia.

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  Who were the Bronze Age Anatolians of Kaman-Kalehöyük?

  The Bronze Age Anatolians of Kaman-Kalehöyük (c. 2000-1500 BCE, Kaman-Kalehöyük, Kırşehir Province, Turkey) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 5 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia".

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  What does "matching" the Bronze Age Anatolians of Kaman-Kalehöyük 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 Bronze Age Anatolians of Kaman-Kalehöyük?

  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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