Ancestry populations · Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer
Anatolian Neolithic Farmer
The first farmers of Anatolia, whose descendants carried agriculture into Europe and became the largest ancestry component of the European Neolithic. One of the 13 curated source populations in the Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer era of the Ancestrify qpAdm ancient-DNA analysis.
Who they were
- Period
- 8500 – 6000 BC
- Era in the analysis
- Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer
- Region
- Central and western Anatolia
- Role in the model
- Source (left) population — a reference qpAdm tests against
The Anatolian Neolithic farmers were the people of the earliest farming villages of central and western Anatolia — settlements such as Boncuklu, Çatalhöyük and Barcın — in the millennia after cereal cultivation and herding took hold in the Fertile Crescent. Ancient genomes from these sites form a tight, distinctive cluster that differs sharply from the hunter-gatherers of Europe and from the contemporary farmers of the Zagros (Mathieson et al. 2015; Lazaridis et al. 2016). The earliest of them show a striking continuity with local Epipalaeolithic foragers, suggesting agriculture was adopted in place rather than brought by migrants (Feldman et al. 2019).
This ancestry became the largest single ingredient of Neolithic Europe: farmers carrying it moved along the Danube and the Mediterranean coast from around 6500 BC, mixing only modestly with local hunter-gatherers along the way. Today it remains the dominant deep component in Sardinians and is substantial across the Mediterranean and the Balkans, thinning towards the north and east where later steppe-related ancestry took a larger share. In the model it sits closest to the Iranian Neolithic and Natufian sources, from which it is separated by a clear but not enormous genetic distance.
In Ancestrify's qpAdm service, Anatolian Neolithic Farmer is a source in the "Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer" era. The report shows its weight with a standard error and a Z-score, so you can see not only how much of the model it carries but how confidently that share is separated from zero, and a model that cannot support it is rejected rather than published. Because it is the deep farmer ancestry of the whole Mediterranean, it competes with the Iranian and Levantine farmer sources for the same part of your genome, and the standard error tells you how cleanly the model could tell them apart.
Y haplogroups G2a and, less often, C1a2, H2 and J2, and mtDNA K1a, N1a, J and T2, are typical of these samples. A haplogroup alone is never evidence of a share.
In your reportArtwork is an AI-generated artistic interpretation informed by the archaeological record — not documentary evidence.Represents the early farming populations of central and western Anatolia (c. 8500–6000 BCE) who showed approximately 80–90% genetic continuity with local pre-farming hunter-gatherers. These farmers carried deep Basal Eurasian ancestry, a lineage that diverged from other non-Africans before Neanderthal admixture occurred. Genomic evidence establishes Anatolia as the primary source of the European Neolithic gene pool, with these farmers spreading agriculture westward through the Aegean into mainland Europe. Multiple genetically differentiated farming populations coexisted across southwestern Asia, with the Anatolian lineage becoming foundational for subsequent Neolithic expansions. Their genetic legacy persists as a major ancestry component in modern European and West Asian populations.
Where this population sits in the model
The Ancestrify qpAdm analysis models your genome once per era. The Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer era has 13 curated source populations, and Anatolian Neolithic Farmer is one of them: every candidate model for that era is a combination of these sources, tested against a fixed set of outgroup populations, and only a model that passes the statistical fit check is published — with a p-value, and a standard error on every proportion.
A reference, not a verdict: every population on this page is a source the model tests your genome against — a well-sampled point in ancient genetic space that a mixture of ancestries can be expressed in terms of. A weight on it means your genome is well described as partly resembling those people; it is never a statement that they, specifically, were your ancestors, and a population that fits well is not the only one that could.
Read how the method works on the qpAdm analysis page, or the definitions in the glossary.
Model it yourself for free
The Ancestrify Lab runs in your browser, with no account. Paste a Global25 row into an admixture calculator that covers the Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer era, rank the closest ancient populations in the distance tool, or run f4, qpWave and qpAdm on the public panel in the AdmixTools 2 workbench. These are Global25 fits and exploratory statistics, not the formal qpAdm model of the paid analysis.
Questions
Who were the Anatolian Neolithic Farmer (8500 – 6000 BC)?
Anatolian Neolithic Farmer is one of the 13 curated source populations in the Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer era of the Ancestrify qpAdm analysis: a group of published ancient genomes from one archaeological context, pooled as a single reference the model can test your genome against.
Does Anatolian Neolithic Farmer in my result mean they were my ancestors?
No. A source population is a reference the model tests against, never a statement about who your ancestors were. A coefficient on this source means the ancestry those burials represent helps explain your genome to within statistical noise — similar ancestry composition, not descent from those individuals. Ancestrify never claims a population is your ancestor.
What does a Anatolian Neolithic Farmer percentage in a qpAdm model mean?
qpAdm estimates the mixture proportions that best explain your genome as a combination of the chosen sources, given a fixed set of outgroup (right) populations, and reports a p-value for whether the model is statistically acceptable together with a standard error for every proportion. The percentage is that estimated share, with its uncertainty published beside it.
How do I get a qpAdm model that uses Anatolian Neolithic Farmer?
Order the Ancestrify qpAdm analysis (€29.99, one-time) and upload the raw file you already have from a consumer test. Your genome is merged into the AADR reference panel and modelled across both eras; each era's model is built from that era's source populations, so a model for the Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer era draws on Anatolian Neolithic Farmer where it improves the fit.
Can I model Anatolian Neolithic Farmer ancestry for free first?
Yes. The Ancestrify Lab runs Global25 admixture calculators, a nearest-populations distance tool and an AdmixTools 2 workbench in your browser with no account, and several calculators cover the Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer era. Those are G25 fits, not formal qpAdm models — the paid analysis is the one with a p-value.
More populations from the Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer era
Browse the full directory of source populations, or continue with another population from the same era:
Ancestral South Indian10000 – 2000 BC
Caucasian Hunter Gatherer13000 – 7000 BC
Eastern Hunter Gatherer12000 – 5000 BC
Iberomaurusian15000 – 8000 BC
Iranian Neolithic Farmer8000 – 5000 BC
Native American15000 – 1500 BC
Natufian12000 – 8000 BC
North African Farmer5200 – 4000 BC
Northeast Asian6000 – 2000 BC
Sub Saharan African
Western Hunter Gatherer12000 – 6000 BC
Western Steppe Herder5000 – 2800 BC