The Han Dynasty People of Shandong

Shandong was the old heartland of Qi and Lu, the land of Confucius, and under the Han dynasty it became one of the most populous corners of the empire. The people buried in the ordinary cemeteries of Xujiacundong and Zhouhe lived through those four centuries of Han rule, farmers and townsfolk rather than princes. Their genomes are remarkably uniform: almost entirely the ancestry of the Central Plains Longshan farmers who had lived in the same region two thousand years earlier, with only a small coastal southeastern trace at Xujiacundong. Modern Shandong Han are genetically much the same people, a continuity that stretches from the Neolithic through the Han empire to the present day.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Reconstructing the genetic formation of Han Chinese from ancient genomes.

Every Ancestry Map includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because these are a small group of real individuals, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances. That is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that the Han Dynasty People of Shandong are your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about Ancestry Map, the full Global25 report.

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  Who were the Han Dynasty People of Shandong?

  The Han Dynasty People of Shandong (c. 200 BCE-200 CE, Xujiacundong and Zhouhe, Shandong, China) are one of the Historical figures entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 12 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Reconstructing the genetic formation of Han Chinese from ancient genomes".

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  What does "matching" the Han Dynasty People of Shandong 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 Han Dynasty People of Shandong?

  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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