🇹🇷 Turkey Anatolia N Ceramic Tepecik Ciftlik genetics

A Cappadocian settlement through time

The site’s broad prehistoric sequence extends approximately from 7500 to 5800 BC. Its location gives it a different geographical setting from the Konya Plain villages to the west, although both regions participated in the development of central Anatolian farming. The ceramic Neolithic reference belongs to the later, pottery-using part of that long sequence. This setting makes Tepecik-Çiftlik useful for exploring regional variation within a world often grouped under the single label of Anatolian farmers.

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Farming and wider social networks

Plant and animal exploitation developed within an increasingly connected landscape of villages. Pottery, food production and durable domestic buildings belong to the everyday context of this later Neolithic world. Genetic diversity increased between some of the earliest farming settlements and later populations such as Tepecik-Çiftlik, consistent with more extensive contact between communities. That pattern gives a demographic dimension to the archaeological transition: as agricultural societies developed, their networks of marriage and movement also expanded.

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A distinct branch within Anatolian farming ancestry

Tepecik-Çiftlik shares the broad ancestry of Neolithic Anatolia, with roots in earlier inhabitants of the plateau and additional Near Eastern connections. It does not occupy exactly the same genetic position as northwestern Barcın or the earliest farmers at Boncuklu. Those differences help explain how the Anatolian ancestry that later spread into Europe developed through regional interaction. A comparison across Boncuklu, Çatalhöyük, Tepecik-Çiftlik and Barcın follows both chronology and geography: early local continuity, growing diversity and movement toward the northwest. Tepecik-Çiftlik supplies the Cappadocian part of this larger picture, preserving an important local expression of the farming transition.

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What is Turkey Anatolia N Ceramic Tepecik Ciftlik DNA closest to?

In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Turkey Anatolia N Ceramic Tepecik Ciftlik is Sephardic Jew Greece. Other nearby references include Italki Jew, Italian Sicily Messina (Sicilian), Italian Sardinia Sulcis-Iglesiente (Sardinian), and Romaniote Jew. This gives the Turkey Anatolia N Ceramic Tepecik Ciftlik profile its nearest modern genetic context inside the current reference database.

What does Turkey Anatolia N Ceramic Tepecik Ciftlik ancestry look like?

The ancestral breakdown below loads the best-fitting World Genetics calculator for the Turkey Anatolia N Ceramic Tepecik Ciftlik average. It should be read as a model of deep ancestry components, while the closest-match table is the better guide to which modern populations are most similar in G25 space.

Where is Turkey Anatolia N Ceramic Tepecik Ciftlik DNA closest on the map?

The heatmap gives the Turkey Anatolia N Ceramic Tepecik Ciftlik profile a geographic shape. Warmer areas mark regions where available modern reference populations sit closer to the Turkey Anatolia N Ceramic Tepecik Ciftlik average, while cooler areas represent more distant matches.

Sources and further reading

1. Kılınç et al. (2016), The Demographic Development of the First Farmers in Anatolia
2. Feldman et al. (2019), Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia
3. Tepecik-Çiftlik Archaeological Research Project, site and chronological setting