Levantine Neolithic Farmer

Period

8800 – 6500 BC

Era in the analysis

Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer

Role in the model

Source (left) population — a reference qpAdm tests against

In your report

The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B farmers of the Levant (c. 8800–6500 BC), known from 'Ain Ghazal in the Jordan highlands — among the world's first village farmers, descendants of the Natufians with added Anatolian-related ancestry. The deep-time Levantine source for customers with Jewish, Arab or broader Near-Eastern roots.

The Ancestrify qpAdm analysis models your genome once per era. The Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer era has 14 curated source populations, and Levantine 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.

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.

• Hunter Gatherer and Neolithic Farmer9 sources

• 01

  Who were the Levantine Neolithic Farmer (8800 – 6500 BC)?

  Levantine Neolithic Farmer is one of the 14 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.

• 02

  Does Levantine 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.

• 03

  What does a Levantine 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.

• 04

  How do I get a qpAdm model that uses Levantine 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 Levantine Neolithic Farmer where it improves the fit.

• 05

  Can I model Levantine 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.

Browse the full directory of source populations, or continue with another population from the same era:

• Anatolian Neolithic Farmer8500 – 6000 BC

• 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