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This project is a meeting place for users who share the K1a4j1 Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup, which means they are related along their maternal lines. Users in this group may want to share their family trees with each other to find overlaps and merge duplicate profiles in order to join or expand the World Family Tree and discover new relatives.
K haplogroup
The mitochondrial super-haplogroup U encompasses haplogroups U1-U7 and haplogroup K.
Haplogroup K is found through Europe and contains multiple closely related lineages indicating a recent population expansion. The origin of haplogroup K dates to approximately 16,000 years ago. It has been suggested that individuals with this haplogroup participated in the pre-Neolithic expansion following the Last Glacial Maximum.
K1a
K1a is a widespread haplogroup that traces back to a woman who lived nearly 20,000 years ago, right around the time of the last great peak of the Ice Age. As the Ice Age gradually loosened its grasp on the global climate in the next several millennia, K1a expanded in the Middle East. Women carrying the haplogroup later spread into Europe as well, with early waves of migration that carried farmers and their new agricultural lifestyle to the west during the Neolithic Revolution. Today, members of K1a can be found throughout the Middle East and Europe.
K1a4
K1a4, traces back to a woman who lived approximately 16,000 years ago. That's nearly 640 generations ago.
Ancient
K1a4 found in Early Neolitic Anatolia, Neolithic France and Orkney, and in Bronze Age Serbia
Ancient skeletons with K1a4 (source: academic papers):
K1a4 - 7100-5950 BC - Anatolia (Turkey), Çatalhöyük; Neolithic
K1a4 - 6500-6200 BC - Barcın, Marmara Region, Northwest Anatolia; Neolithic
K1a4 - 6400-5600 BC - Menteşe Turkey; Neolithic
K1a4 - 5641-5547 BC - Hungary Starcevo; Early Neolithic
K1a4 - 5000-4500 BC - Hungary; Late Neolithic
K1a4 - 3780-3650 BC - Aveline, Southwest England; Early Neolithic
K1a4 - 3080-2904 BC - Wales; Late Neolithic
K1a4 - 2580-2463 BC - Isbister, Orkney, Scotland; Neolithic
K1a4 - 900-800 BC - Italy; Iron Age
Ancient mtDNA K from the Eastern Italian Alps
AP-AL4 K1a4 73G 263G 309.1C 309.1T 310C 497T 750G 1189C 1438G 1811G 2706G 3480G 4769G 7028T 8860G 9055A 9549T (15X) 9698C 10398G 10550G 11299C 11467G 11485C 11719A 12308G A12358G 12372A 14167T 14766T 14798C 15326G 16224C 16311C 16519C Adige/Etschtal 7th-8th century AD
AP-AL5 K1a4 73G 263G 310C 497T 750G 1189C 1438G 1811G 2706G 3480G 4769G 7028T 8860G 9055A 9549T (25X) 9698C 10398G 10550G 11299C 11467G 11485C 11719A 12308G A12358G 12372A 14167T 14766T 14798C 15326G 16224C 16311C 16519C Adige/Etschtal 7th-8th century AD
K1a4 : found in Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Czechia, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Britain, Ireland, Portugal and Russia.
K1a4j : found in Kazakhstan
Ancient Samples
K1a4j1
VB18 sample - Italy
VB39 sample - Italy
JX271290 - Kurd
JX271292 - Kurd
JX273271 - Azerbaijan
Modern
K1a4j1
Found in:
Turkey
Italy
Argentina
Earliest known female carriers of the mtDNA:
Sofia Clavone - born 12 Jan 1760 - Bursa, Turkey
Francesca Acciclade (orphan name) - born 17 Jun 1856 - Genoa, Italy
Atike BAŞPINAR - born 1 July 1879 - Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
Maria Lintz - born 02 Nov 1915 - Aldo Bonzi, pcia Buenos Aires, Argentina