Paternal line · Y-DNA
A Levantine and Arabian branch of E-M123
E-M84
Where it is common today
The Levant, Arabia and Mesopotamia, within the wider E-M123 line.
How old it is
This branch split from its parent about 14,900 years ago (between 13,500 and 16,400).
Every man who carries it today descends from one man who lived about 8,600 years ago (between 7,600 and 9,700).
From the big letter down to this branch
- E-M215
- E-M35
- E-Z827
- E-Z830
- E-PF1962
- E-M123
- E-M34
- E-M84
Every test reads your line to a different depth. One report says J1, another J-P58, another a code four steps further down — all of them are right, the longer one is simply more detailed. HealthOS reads as deep as your file allows.
Ancient people who carried it
23 ancient genomes in the Allen Ancient DNA Resource carry this line. The oldest is from Ba’ja, Jordan, around 7,020 BC.
- Nerkin-Getashen, Armenia1,370 BC – 1,300 BC3 people
- Oylum Höyük, Turkey1,740 BC – 1,720 BC2 people
- Tel Megiddo, Israel1,500 BC2 people
- Roopkund, IndiaAD 820 – AD 1,8202 people
- Ba’ja, Jordan7,020 BC1 people
- Arslantepe, Turkey3,260 BC1 people
- Ebla / Tell Mardikh, Syria2,600 BC1 people
- Hazor, Israel1,700 BC1 people
- Beniamin, Armenia1,420 BC1 people
- Sarukhan, Armenia670 BC1 people
- NevalıÇori, Turkey630 BC1 people
- Kerkouene, Tunisia550 BC1 people
A note on tribes and genealogy
Families across Arabia often connect this line with a tribal genealogy — Adnani or Qahtani, or a named ancestor. Genetics can show that two men share a male-line ancestor, and roughly when he lived. It cannot confirm a genealogy, name the ancestor, or say which tribe a line "belongs" to: the same branch runs through many tribes and peoples, and one tribe carries many branches.
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