The Indus Periphery

No burial from the Indus Valley Civilisation itself appears in this entry, and that must be said plainly. Instead, these eight are outliers from two sites on the Indus world's edge: Shahr-i Sokhta in eastern Iran and Gonur Depe in Turkmenistan, both in exchange with the Harappan cities. Unlike their neighbours, they carry no Anatolian farmer ancestry, combining 45 to 82 percent Iranian-farmer-related ancestry with 11 to 50 percent Ancient Ancestral South Indian-related ancestry. Two of them belong to Y-haplogroup H1a1d2, today found mainly in southern India. Researchers named this pattern the Indus Periphery Cline and used it as a stand-in for Harappan ancestry: a proxy drawn from the civilisation's trading partners, not a Harappan burial.

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

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 Indus Periphery 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 Indus Periphery?

  The Indus Periphery (c. 3100-1950 BCE, Shahr-i Sokhta, Iran, and Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 8 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 Indus Periphery 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 Indus Periphery?

  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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